alt Hacker NewsHuh. Have the numbers gone up since the 80s? Worms are not something I ever heard about as a child, teen, or twenty-something.
That said, I also had a kid in the 00s and my friends have kids now, and nobody has mentioned getting worms.
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sallveburrpi • yesterday at 12:33 AM
I had worms as a kid once in the nineties, I ate some cookies I found buried in the sand on the playground.
It’s not super common (if you live in Europe) but it happens.
Meanwhile my friends who grew up in a tropical country they had to take anti-worm meds regularly.
It depends a lot on your circumstances
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Asymptomatic infestation is very common… no one likes to talk about pinworms but it’s pretty likely any kids you meet have it.