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Your great-grandparents faced infectious diseases that hardly threaten you
today: tuberculosis, polio, cholera, malaria, yellow fever, measles, mumps,
rubella, smallpox, typhoid, typhus, tapeworm, hookworm…. But there's also a long
list of modern illnesses that your great-grandparents barely knew: asthma,
eczema, hay fever, food allergies, Crohn's disease, diabetes, multiple
sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis. The coincidence of the rise in these
"inflammation" diseases, characterized by an overactive immune system, with the
decline of infection is almost certainly not a coincidence.
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