Has our war on microbes weakened our immune system

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Not an anti-vaccine thread

Link is to an authority site

Has our war on microbes left our immune systems prone to dysfunction?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012...-of-absence-takes-on-the-worms-youre-missing/



By not letting our children get sick from common, and mostly harmless diseases, are we weakening the immune system in the long run?

Not just from vaccine diseases such as chicken pox, but fewer kids are playing in the ditches, fewer kids swimming in the rivers, eating dirt,,,, and other stuff that would build a healthy immune system.

What used to be rare allergies, such as peanut allergies are becoming more common. And why is that?

Evolution 101