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 month 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·
      1 month 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.