Is cleanliness wiping out our immune system?

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Too much cleanliness has been linked to the alarming rise in auto-immune and allergic diseases in the Western world, says Professor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth from the Centenary Institute. But the answer to this dilemma could lie in our gut.

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