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Allergies Abound Due to Freedom From Lice
A University of Nottingham study is holding freedom from louse infestation responsible for increased allergic reactions. The finding means that the epidemic of allergic disorders in modern, urban people might be due to our having rid ourselves of lice and worms.
As per “hygiene hypothesis” humans’ immune systems evolved to compensate for continual infections with parasitic [...]
Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa
For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.
The last such drought, persisting more than three centuries, ended [...]
