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Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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For me this link results in a 503 I've read the gist of this article in my local news org feed. What it basically comes down to is that Finnish scientists noticed that Russian children who grew up in rural areas usually had way less asthma cases than Finnish city children, and thus began to research why this was the case. They hypothesized that early (first 10000 days) exposure to micro-organisms might play a key rol…

Reminds me of a dark joke I sometimes make: Why are there no Turkish people above forty with nut allergies? Because they all died in early childhood.

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That it is not leaders, these are experts in government agencies that work for the best of the people. The difference is that you have to give them responsibilities and trust them as a society.

When experts get heard, then you have competent, sensible leaders.

When leaders say things like "the people of this country have had enough of experts" then you don't. Invoking "the people" like that is another warning sign.

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usa has a whole agency for it

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

edit: to ppl claiming this must be useless because its in usa is incredible ignorant and insulting to ppl who work there. pls do minimum of research before making such statements.

they even have link to their ongoing clinical trials on their website homepage

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/find-a-clinical-tr...

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usa has a whole agency for it National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). edit: to ppl claiming this must be useless because its in usa is incredible ignorant and insulting to ppl who work there. pls do minimum of research before making such statements. they even have link to their ongoing clinical trials on their website homepage https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/find-a-clinical-tr...

I'm not sure if the US and public healthcare are a positive word combination exactly. Having an agency doesn't mean the outcomes are good.
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