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  • By Brandon Keim |

Moises Velasquez-Manoff was on the road to Tijuana, where he’d meet a man who would infect him with hookworms. So begins An Epidemic of Absence, Velasquez-Manoff’s new book about a tantalizing hypothesis for a modern medical mystery: Why autoimmune diseases, in which a person’s immune system attacks their own body, are becoming more common, even as infectious and parasitic diseases are beaten back.