anonymous48

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   by anonymous48 11y ago

   Bed bugs were eradicated in the US, not kept at bay. They only came back through their reintroduction by foreigners.
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   by anonymous48 11y ago

   I think you misread my post. I compared the prevalence of certain parasites and infectious diseases in the 1960s with the present and observed a regression. I said nothing about the state of affairs in the 19th century.
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   by anonymous48 11y ago

   They do understand. That's why they're willing to fund, even out-of-pocket, disease prevention efforts... Just so long as the disease is highly contagious or something they already have or likely will have (like Sergei and Parkins
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   by anonymous48 11y ago

   This is quite distressing, showing how our quality of life has actually regressed by some metrics rather than improved as is normally assumed. Americans of the 1960s did not have to worry about Chagas, Malaria, or Bed Bugs. These were paras