[JTND] Better Sanitation Leads to More Allergies

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[Isn't it ironic?]

From Japan Times(English):

Sanitary infant environment suspected for high allergy incidence

Some 86 percent of people born in the 1970s have allergies against
things such as mites and cedar pollen, researchers at the National
Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo estimated Monday.
The figure is extremely high, even compared with other countries such
as New Zealand, where there are high incidences of allergies, as the
percentages in reports from those countries stand at below 70 percent,
the researchers said.

"We have recently been paying attention to the assumption that babies
who were raised in sanitary environments are more prone to having
allergies," said Hirohisa Saito, head of the center's Department of
Allergy and Immunology.

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030225a8.htm

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