
Plagues of our past
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The Blow of Diarrhoeal Diseases and Dysenteries
The burden of diarrhoeal diseases and dysenteries on human societies is enormous. Ande forget that because of the the amazing triumphs of public health and sanitation an hygiene in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Shigolosis isn't, isn't a kind of household word, but it was one of the really terrible scourges throughout human history. The reason why human societies have suffered such an extraordinary burden of these kinds of diseases is because of the environments that we created when we gave up the hunter gather life style.
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