The really interesting thing with covid is how benign it appears to be in Africa. Nigeria with 200 million population has just over 3000 deaths.
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The USA with a population of 330 million has had over a million deaths.
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Lots of reasons given such as the prevalence of obesity. But came across an interesting article by a fellow that predicted early in 2020 that Africa would be far less affected because of the difference in our gut flora. our relative lack of parasites leaves us open to auto immune problems. An interesting read.
Abstract. Suboptimal understanding of concepts related to hygiene by the general public, clinicians and researchers is a persistent problem in health and medici
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Some are actually thinking worms may be the answer. This article is from 2015.
The thought of intestinal worms sneaking around our bodies is pretty unpleasant, but some types of worms are beneficial and could help treat inflammatory diseases.
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Of course in Africa vaccination rates are generally<105. Mask wearing basically doesn't happen and social distancing is never observed. Have we got it all wrong?