[secret garden]

That's the silliest thing I've read today. Considering 99.9% of Americans are born in hospitals.

[metesky]

Over 75% of people that die in America are under a doctors care and 80% of Americans die in a hospital or under some form of care.

Stay away from doctors and hospitals and you'll live forever.
/feeble humor

[patton]

"Single cells bear variable combinations of these NK cell receptors (NKR), presumably resulting from stochastic gene activation/silencing events that take place during their maturation. The diversity of NKR observed in different individuals is in part genetically determined, as distinct KIR haplotypes include variable sets of genes. On the other hand, there is evidence that microbial infections may also influence the NKR repertoire. In this regard, murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) promotes an expansion of NK cells bearing the Ly49H receptor specific for the m157 viral glycoprotein, that play a crucial role in the immune response to infection."

The point is not that everyone born in hospital has asthma - it is that everyone with asthma was born in hospital.