The Importance of Pets in Children's Health

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There's this idea that it's bad for children to grow up in households that are overly clean. Gilad Amit is a science correspondent for The Economist. He says pets are a good way of exposing children to all sorts of microbes and bacteria they wouldn't otherwise encounter.

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