https://www.rt.com/usa/446877-alabama-hookwarm-infection-video/
Hookworm, a blood-sucking parasite thought eradicated in the US in the last century, is now seeing a resurgence in Alabama. In the Now explains how wealth inequality and racism put the state on par with countries like Honduras.
Lowndes County is part of Alabama’s so-called Black Belt, a name reflecting its majority population and dark soil. The soil has clay-like properties and cannot absorb water very well. It means special septic systems need to be installed there to treat sewage. Spending some $10,000 on such a system in a country where a third of people live in poverty is not an option for many households, so they often get a regular system that is twice cheaper. Unfortunately, such septics clog and overflow in rain, resulting in literal cesspools forming in people’s backyards.
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What a charming image of rural Alabama. They may not have Jim Crow any more but instead they have hookworm.
Having lived for many years in rural areas of NJ where city sewage was not available, septic systems (septic tanks coupled to drainage fields) are a way of life. But I still would not want my kids sledding on the septic mound in winter. I had a Siamese kitten once, the runt of the litter, and it had dermal hookworm that needed constant attention until a veterinarian diagnosed the problem as being a dietary deficiency of a vitamin.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm
https://www.rt.com/usa/446877-alabama-hookwarm-infection-video/
Hookworm, a blood-sucking parasite thought eradicated in the US in the last century, is now seeing a resurgence in Alabama. In the Now explains how wealth inequality and racism put the state on par with countries like Honduras.
Lowndes County is part of Alabama’s so-called Black Belt, a name reflecting its majority population and dark soil. The soil has clay-like properties and cannot absorb water very well. It means special septic systems need to be installed there to treat sewage. Spending some $10,000 on such a system in a country where a third of people live in poverty is not an option for many households, so they often get a regular system that is twice cheaper. Unfortunately, such septics clog and overflow in rain, resulting in literal cesspools forming in people’s backyards.
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What a charming image of rural Alabama. They may not have Jim Crow any more but instead they have hookworm.
Having lived for many years in rural areas of NJ where city sewage was not available, septic systems (septic tanks coupled to drainage fields) are a way of life. But I still would not want my kids sledding on the septic mound in winter. I had a Siamese kitten once, the runt of the litter, and it had dermal hookworm that needed constant attention until a veterinarian diagnosed the problem as being a dietary deficiency of a vitamin.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm
Correct or not, using the Russian Propaganda Ministry (RT) as a source tends to make me pay less, if any, attention to a thread.
I suppose that changing and/or enforcing building codes to deal with the problem would be deemed racist.
A lot of them good ole boys have more head lice and hookworms than brain cells.
Mebbe they done got all et up by 'em.
Well at least they didn't run footage from Romania claiming it was Americans drinking coffee made from snow. :lamo
Well at least they didn't run footage from Romania claiming it was Americans drinking coffee made from snow. :lamo
That's not racist at all....
Lol, "you see no birds, because they are all eaten" and "this man awaits heroin" had me rolling.
Actually it's not nearly as dishonest as the lies Trump tells..
No, it ain't, and I lived in a trailer park in Jonesboro, Arkansas for three years, so step off.
And in some parts of the country, like Flint, Michigan, coffee or water made from snow won't kill you as fast as the water from the water system.
I was just messing with you, I assumed you didn't mean anything racial by it. I have to ask though, if a Republican candidate tweeted your exact response about a majority black population, what do you believe the headlines would read?
I was just messing with you, I assumed you didn't mean anything racial by it. I have to ask though, if a Republican candidate tweeted your exact response about a majority black population, what do you believe the headlines would read?
Hmmm, prolly wouldn't contain "good ole boys", but maybe some other terms.
That he referenced a "majority black population".
The reason you guys are getting **** is because Stupid and his "base" are racist, say racist ****, do racist things and on and on. That hyper sensitivity is a result of being caught out so often.
Correct or not, using the Russian Propaganda Ministry (RT) as a source tends to make me pay less, if any, attention to a thread.
Then here's a parallel piece from The Guardian (UK):
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty
Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?
Exclusive: in America, the world’s richest country, hookworm, a parasitic disease found in areas of extreme poverty, is rampant, the first study of its kind in modern times show
Children playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked pipes of untreated waste; human faeces flushed back into kitchen sinks and bathtubs whenever the rains come; people testing positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme poverty.
These are the findings of a new study into endemic tropical diseases, not in places usually associated with them in the developing world of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, but in a corner of the richest nation on earth: Alabama.
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Russian sources, I agree, should always be double-checked to detect undue spin. But this story has legs.
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