A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia duodenalis.
  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    18 days ago

    Soooo… Go get yourself infected with some of the less-deadly parasites and then eat all the bread? Just be sure to avoid brain worms.

    • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      18 days ago

      Not exactly an ideal situation either way, but that’s it. Fundamentally, figuring out a way to regulate overzealous immune systems is the ends. This is one means, based in our evolutionary history, maybe. That’s about as far as we’ve come on this thread

    • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      17 days ago

      As someone who has an autoimmune disorder, I’d take the parasites any day; it’s hard to overstate how much this fucking sucks.

      I’d even take the brain worms.

      Especially the brain worms.