Farm living could arm kids against asthma

USA TODAY:  Kids who grow up on traditional farms are 30% to 50% less likely than other children to develop asthma, a new study shows. But it’s not the fresh country air.

It’s the germs.

“Good” germs, that is, or at least harmless ones associated with cows, pigs and other barnyard creatures with which humans have been living, and maybe even co-evolving, for centuries… (more)