[extropy-chat] Training the immune system

[Martin Striz]

On 5/27/06, Morris Johnson <mfj.eav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I was at a Canadian Food Inspection Agency Uniformity Training Session in
> April  and the president of CFIA said the same thing.
>  It is now generally accepted that clean is OK up to a point
>  Our HACCP course micro prof grew up in a farming community in India  and
> mentioned that ecoli , etc in cattle watering holes didn't bother the
> shepherds sharing the water but would have floored you and me.

Indeed.  Jared Diamond, among others, suggests that it was trading
routes and exposure to many pathogens that gave the Europeans an
epidemiological advantage over Native Americans.

Martin