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.
There’s bacteria everywhere in the West too, and people who move out of the tropics tend to have a lot of respiratory issues in the new environment.
Sanitary standards are lower, and particularly improper disposal of human waste is a massive problem in the third world, but unless you work in semiconductors or at NASA there’s no such thing as perfectly clean. Let’s not be snooty.
makes 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
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.
There’s bacteria everywhere in the West too, and people who move out of the tropics tend to have a lot of respiratory issues in the new environment.
Sanitary standards are lower, and particularly improper disposal of human waste is a massive problem in the third world, but unless you work in semiconductors or at NASA there’s no such thing as perfectly clean. Let’s not be snooty.