Hookworm, on the other hand isn't. Hookworm is attributable to a government (and its people) failing its people -- not disparate from Flint's water crisis. Basic sewage (septic in most cases) maintenance not being performed.
Unfortunately, the primary solution, condemning the buildings on these lands, could be seen as forcing people off of their land and hurting generational wealth growth -- even though for the underwater mortgage amounts and considering the land should be condemned -- and competing mortgages/rents to cities with sewer systems would be less...
Reading the article, this is happening in areas of septic tanks, not gov’t provided waste treatment. In addition, they are building on flood prone land where septic tanks don’t work.
Seems more like somebody screwed up when they built a community versus some epidemic due to poor healthcare.
Unfortunately, the primary solution, condemning the buildings on these lands, could be seen as forcing people off of their land and hurting generational wealth growth -- even though for the underwater mortgage amounts and considering the land should be condemned -- and competing mortgages/rents to cities with sewer systems would be less...