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Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits
- cpt1138 15y agoIts surprising to me this is news.
- icebraining 15y agoThe news is not that it happens, but that they have discovered how it happens - or at least, a possible way, since the experiment was done in mice.
- naragon 15y agoI knew growing up in a third world country would come in handy for me some day.
- lewisgodowski 15y agoAnd this is why I'm in utter disbelief when parents protect their children so much as to not let them play in the dirt and sandboxes and such.
- farnsworth 15y agoI'm wary of what people will start doing to their kids once this passes through the telephone game of science reporting -> MSM -> well-meaning parents following 'cutting-edge' parenting techniques.
- Symmetry 15y agoMy friend the professional immunology researcher often expresses her disbelief at how parents try to protect their kids from dirt. Also, Nature isn't really the MSM.
- farnsworth 15y agoI know - the next step is CNN.com (or whatever) "Scientists say you should keep your kids as dirty as possible" then you have, I don't know, parents smearing pig shit over babies or something. You get the idea.