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Originally Posted by silverdoctor
I love articles like these... Yes, basic hygiene is wonderful, but when science becomes "could" or "may", I have to chuckle. Kids are walking, talking germ factories. CDC needs to get it's poop together - pardon the pun.
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What's your point? The CDC article is BS?
Could is the past of can. I could not find the word may in the article.
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Originally Posted by silverdoctor
So... What about the other 2/3 that get sick with diarrhea? Or the other 4/5 with respiratory infections?
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There are many other causes that may/could make up for the other 2/3rds:
• Allergies to certain foods
• Diabetes
• Diseases of the intestines (such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis)
• Eating foods that upset the digestive system
• Infection by bacteria (the cause of most types of food poisoning) or other organisms
• Medications
• Overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism)
• Some cancers
• Surgery
• Bacterial infections
• Trouble absorbing certain nutrients, also called “malabsorption”
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Originally Posted by silverdoctor
Back in the 1800's, they learned not to poop upstream of your water supply, that spreads cholera.
Lets look at Haiti and the cholera epidemic in 2010? Some 7000 dead, couple of hundred thousand sick? And all due to what? Outhouses built beside a river that leaked, and UN peacekeepers sick with the bacteria - yeah, we haven't learned the basics yet.
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I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here in context of the OP.