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Hookworm Infections Learning Center
Prevention could include:
- Adequate Sanitation
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Avoid Contact with Soil
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Wear Shoes Outdoors
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Protective gloves
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Improvement in sanitation measures in developing countries is necessary for prevention of infection.
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Prevention of hookworm disease involves improving sanitation and avoiding contact with soil in areas with high rates of hookworm infection. Children should be required to wear shoes when playing outside in such areas, and people who are gardening ...
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Sanitation is a basic, as well as a long-standing, public health issue. When early peoples settled in communities and started to cultivate crops and raise animals, sanitation became a primary concern for society. The Book of Leviticus, in the Tora...
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