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Hygiene in the home and community

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When your body is not working properly you feel ill — you are suffering from a disease. Some diseases are the result of inherited defects and some are due to dietary deficiencies. But this chapter is about diseases caused by living organisms, called parasites, that may invade your body.

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© 1991 Robert Barrass

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Barrass, R. (1991). Hygiene in the home and community. In: Mastering Science. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11075-9_31

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