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Parasitic Worms: The Building Blocks Of Good Health?!?

In countries like the USA and the UK, inflammatory diseases - like allergies, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune disorders, and even some kinds of atherosclerosis, depression and cancer - are all on the rise. Meanwhile, these same developed nations have almost completely eradicated parasitic infections like they're the plague. Three papers published in the journal Immunology might have an unexpected answer that brings together these seemingly disconnected trends: it might be a lack of parasites that is aiding the increase of inflammatory diseases in our hygiene-obsessed, over-developed world.