rybosworld says >"In the U.S., the recommendation is that "healthy individuals do not need to deworm"."< You quote something but provide no source. I believe t

rybosworld says >"In the U.S., the recommendation is that "healthy individuals do not need to deworm"."< You quote something but provide no source. I believe the quote is at least not wise and probably is incorrect. People should periodically be checked for parasites. Otherwise they may be writing posts to YC under the influence of a worm!8-) Butt seriously, many individuals in the USA have worms. When I was a child in the southwest USA we were tested at least once a year for parasites including worms. That was decades ago. Yet today the topsoil is the same, the plants and animals are the same and the parasites remain. Children still put their hands into dirt, eat dirt and sand, and touch everything. Gardeners are just as bad. I had worms as a child and I likely catch them now and again. I take care of it. Some people "deworm" themselves in their work: e.g., ivermectin products are often applied to animals' skin. That ivermectin clears many parasites from the cowboy as well as from the cow.