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The Hygiene Hypothesis is a scientific model that links the increasing prevalence of allergic diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis, as well as autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS), and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), in industrialized societies since the second half of the twentieth century to reduced exposure to microbial agents during early childhood. First formulated in 1989 by David Strachan, who observed an inverse relationship between the number