There’s bacteria everywhere in the West too, and people who move out of the tropics tend to have a lot of respiratory issues.
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months agomakes me rethink the common idea that the reason people get sick when travelling is due to not being used to the different bacteria in the water/food
yeah no if this is true it’s just that we’re not used to there BEING bacteria in the water
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
burningmatches@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I once saw a man in Delhi with a literal cloud of flies permanently stationed above his head. I thought that was just a cartoon trope but I realised then that it was an actual thing.