This video presents a growing public health crisis wherein hookworm, a disease thought only to affect the developing world, is thriving in some parts of the rural US. And if you think racism has something to do with it, you're right… In a recent study, 35% of the residents surveyed in Lowndes County, Alabama tested positive for this parasitic disease that American doctors aren’t even trained to survey for or treat. It’s been linked to a raw sewage crisis: Because the soil here doesn’t absorb water, special septic systems are required that can end up costing up to $30,000. But a third of Lowndes County’s population lives in poverty and simply cannot afford to pay that much.
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By uncovering the dirty secrets of the Alabama sewage crisis, we shed much-needed light on health departments’ alleged racial discrimination in their failure to properly investigate or warn people about hookworm or adequately deal with the sewage crisis.
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