Allergies seem nearly impossible to avoid... unless you’re Amish and from the Hoosier State
Aug 17, 2025•34 sec
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Episode description
An Amish community in northern Indiana is considered one of the least-allergic populations ever measured in the developed world.
The WASHINGTON POST reports only 7-percent of Amish children there had a positive response to one or more common allergens in a skin prick test compared with more than 50-percent of the general U.S. population.
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