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There have been reports of YouTubers I watch getting sick after eating food in third world countries. However, these countries are also home to a large number of people who do not get sick from eating the same food. I think this suggests that the locals may have developed stronger immune systems. What do you think?

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't tell anyone, but we third worlders convert bacteria into energy, neutralising them. That's how we survive restaurant potato-mayo salad, and street hot dogs!*

OK, I'm joking with the above. Serious now: if there's any quantitative difference on the immunity system between people living in poorer conditions, related to food poisoning and similar, I'd expect it to be a smaller component. Instead what I expect the most is a qualitative difference, between people living in different areas: you're more used to the strains of bacteria around your home, than the ones elsewhere, so when you're travelling you have a higher chance to get some stupid food poisoning.

If my reasoning is correct you should see something similar happening with travellers in general, even if they stick to places with a similar economic status as their homeland.

*or street hot dogs with potato-mayo salad. Yes, they're a thing in my city - that's why we call those street hot dogs something loosely translatable as "big rotten". (I once got food poisoning from one of those. It was not fun.)

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