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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4207342" data-attributes="member: 56035">&quot;Children playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked pipes of untreated waste; human faeces flushed back into kitchen sinks and bathtubs whenever the rains come; people testing positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme poverty.These are <a href="http://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0396?utm_content=buffer20d45&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">the findings of a new study</a> into endemic tropical diseases, not in places usually associated with them in the developing world of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, but in a corner of the richest nation on earth: Alabama.Scientists in Houston, Texas, have lifted the lid on one of America’s darkest and deepest secrets: that hidden beneath <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/" target="_blank">fabulous wealth</a>, the US tolerates poverty-related illness at levels comparable to the world’s poorest countries. More than one in three people sampled in a poor area of Alabama tested positive for traces of hookworm, a gastrointestinal parasite that was thought to have been eradicated from the US decades ago.&quot;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty" target="_blank">Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4207342, member: 56035"] "Children playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked pipes of untreated waste; human faeces flushed back into kitchen sinks and bathtubs whenever the rains come; people testing positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme poverty. These are [URL='http://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0396?utm_content=buffer20d45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer']the findings of a new study[/URL] into endemic tropical diseases, not in places usually associated with them in the developing world of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, but in a corner of the richest nation on earth: Alabama. Scientists in Houston, Texas, have lifted the lid on one of America’s darkest and deepest secrets: that hidden beneath [URL='http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/']fabulous wealth[/URL], [B] the US tolerates poverty-related illness at levels comparable to the world’s poorest countries. More than one in three people sampled in a poor area of Alabama tested positive for traces of hookworm[/B], a gastrointestinal parasite that was thought to have been eradicated from the US decades ago." [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty"]Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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