{"items": [{"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/monday-august-16-2010-autoimmune-diseases-and-parasites/419023646212/?comment_id=419034366212", "anchor": "fb-419034366212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Herbert: I don't believe that's what's going on. The paper claims that these diseases are extremely rare outside of the developed world, not that people just die rapidly if they have them. It claims:
\"autoimmune inflammatory diseases like T1D and MS are extremely rare in most African and Asian populations, yet increase conspicuously when these same populations migrate to a modern setting\"", "timestamp": "1281975005"}, {"author": "Janice", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/monday-august-16-2010-autoimmune-diseases-and-parasites/419023646212/?comment_id=419048291212", "anchor": "fb-419048291212", "service": "fb", "text": "I wonder if it's that a higher percentage of actual cases are undiagnosed in the \"developing world\". As far as I know our understanding of these diseases is relatively recent and they are difficult (and often take a long time) to diagnose even here.", "timestamp": "1281977956"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/monday-august-16-2010-autoimmune-diseases-and-parasites/419023646212/?comment_id=419052811212", "anchor": "fb-419052811212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Janice: that could be, though the claims are based primarily on symptom surveys, not numbers of diagnosed cases. If it is actually an issue of reporting , though, the test that I'm proposing should find the same levels of autoimmune disorders in both the dewormed and control groups.", "timestamp": "1281978918"}]}