My Street This Afternoon (Phnom Penh's Flash Flood)

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They're probably used to it. Some have died, some get sick, but the survivors (and fathers and mothers) continue and pass on their immunities...medicine 101...locals have a few advantages...
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Nah, they get sick just like the rest of us, especially stomach ailments (some serious) and eye infections. Parents do not pass on immunity to specific diseases to their offspring.
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HotRecruiter wrote:They're probably used to it. Some have died, some get sick, but the survivors (and fathers and mothers) continue and pass on their immunities...medicine 101...locals have a few advantages...
This is a major myth...locals are used to eating pure shit from the sewer, etc. Talk to any doctor - locals are ill all the time from infections, dysentery, diseases...

Building up alleged "immunity" through constant exposure only works so far...i.e. not far at all...much more critical is your overall health and the strength of your immunity system in general...achieved by eating well and exercising, etc...drinking less than 20 units of booze, 3 packets of cigs daily...

and wearing your helmet 24/7...which would have kept you afloat during the recent flooding!
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Not a myth. The weak get sick and die, they don't get to breed.
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HotRecruiter wrote:Not a myth. The weak get sick and die, they don't get to breed.
HR, that's what Dagenham was saying.
. . . more critical is your overall health and the strength of your immunity system in general...achieved by eating well and exercising, etc. . . .
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HotRecruiter wrote:Not a myth. The weak get sick and die, they don't get to breed.
Irrelevant. Parents do not pass on specific immunities to their offspring.
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Breast feeding immediately after birth does pass on certain immunities in the colostrum (one if the joys of being a mammal) bit eating fecal matter is not something you can develop an immunity for - the two issues are unrelated.
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StroppyChops wrote:Breast feeding immediately after birth does pass on certain immunities in the colostrum (one if the joys of being a mammal) bit eating fecal matter is not something you can develop an immunity for - the two issues are unrelated.
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StroppyChops wrote:Breast feeding immediately after birth does pass on certain immunities in the colostrum (one if the joys of being a mammal) bit eating fecal matter is not something you can develop an immunity for - the two issues are unrelated.
Nor can (most) people develop a fond taste for eating fecal matter either...although I'm sure it has happened...a "hot lunch" maybe?
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The theater nurse who is staying with us at the moment just confirmed that you're born with 100% immunities from your mother and these are maintained while being breast fed - after that, it's inoculations.
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