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"Children who were listless and dull are now active and alert.....Some of the 45 children who had never attended school, having been treated, have come in during the year. Others have declared their intention to enter in the fall".
Everywhere it is currently studied children with hookworm are not just duller, but so drained of energy that they skip classes altogether. One of the ways widespread infection probably affected all Southerners was that it increased adult tolerance for playing hooky.
This is such interesting history, Uriah. There is a fascinating RadioLab podcast about this very topic. Solved by building outhouses with deep pits that prevented the worms from moving into the soil and then through barefeet.
It's interesting, sure, but it's a bit like a more extreme example of dredging up lead exposure in the 1970s to explain present-day racial IQ gaps.
playing hooky.... hoo k... w
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