Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?

Exclusive: in America, the world's richest country, hookworm, a parasitic disease found in areas of extreme poverty are rampant, the first study of its kind in modern times shows

Children playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked pipes of untreated waste; human faeces flushed back into kitchen sinks and bathtubs whenever the rains come; people testing positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme poverty.

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