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Elementary school students on play structure

What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us About Kids and Germs

Source: Wired

In a world of antibacterial soaps and sterile environments, scientists have found that children exposed to diverse bacterial environments have better immune responses.

This entry was posted in Finding Ourselves in Nature, Nature at Work, The Natural World and tagged Culture & Society, People, Science & Nature on August 1, 2021 by Daniella Navarro.

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