I question the cancer study, though. Unless they are talking about infant day care centers and/or later onset ALL (> 8 yrs). Given that I have personal experience with ALL (granted, anecdotal), I can say that most of the children I've seen were under 6 years of age and had attended public school and/or in preschool/daycare arrangements (before becoming sick, of course). The other thing is that, at least in the U.S., every ALL kid is put into a national database that analyses just about everything (this part is fascinating, because the treatment protocols are constantly revised and updated from the bloodwork and current treatment information input (among other things) into this database; I would LOVE to have access to this and poke about) on these kids.
But it's interesting. I can't find it now but the other day there was an article regarding healthier immune systems in children where there was a family dog living with them.
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I question the cancer study, though. Unless they are talking about infant day care centers and/or later onset ALL (> 8 yrs). Given that I have personal experience with ALL (granted, anecdotal), I can say that most of the children I've seen were under 6 years of age and had attended public school and/or in preschool/daycare arrangements (before becoming sick, of course). The other thing is that, at least in the U.S., every ALL kid is put into a national database that analyses just about everything (this part is fascinating, because the treatment protocols are constantly revised and updated from the bloodwork and current treatment information input (among other things) into this database; I would LOVE to have access to this and poke about) on these kids.
But it's interesting. I can't find it now but the other day there was an article regarding healthier immune systems in children where there was a family dog living with them.