[scarby2]

>People have diarrhoea a lot today, in developed countries with stable access to clean water and food

My personal experience suggests it's pretty uncommon. Maybe once every few years, and I eat all sorts of questionable things.

[closewith]

179 million acute cases pa in the US [https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/11/22-0247_article]. Probably an order of magnitude more unreported cases.

[fransje26]

>> But if everybody lives in a well-established traditional way (quoted from card_zero's comment)

> 179 million acute cases pa in the US

I don't think the US diet qualifies..

[kergonath]

I would suggest your personal experience is not representative of what billions of people are living e.g. in Nigeria and most of tropical Africa and India.

[taneliv]

Do you have, or live with children?

[rexpop]

What a tedious over-inflation of personal significance. It's utterly depressing that literate people such as yourself could be so unimaginative as to presume the representative significance of your own experience.

Although they're less common among the insufferably narcissistic rich, diarrhoeal diseases account for 1.5 million deaths, annually ranking them as the 8th leading cause of death globally.[0]

0. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

[jeltz]

I also almost never have it but I would never presume my experience to be iniversal.

[bartonfink]

Your personal experience must invalidate large parts of the diarrhea filled lives many others before you have lived and died. Thanks for chiming in, wise one.