Mexico warns of diarrhea risk when visiting US
www.newsweek.com
Health officials issued a travel advisory following a spike of over 1,600 parasitic infections across 34 U.S. states.

A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico’s expense, eh?

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    There’s a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first.

    Neither counties do this, and that’s one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        24 hours ago

        Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?

        I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          21 hours ago

          Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.

          The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.

          • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            And the guy who suggested germs exist (cadaver particles) was locked up in an insane institution, where he died.