Assertion: hookworm | /r/CapableOf | worsen in year
Facets:
value: thanks to deteriorating conditions
type: CAUSE
value: following the civil war
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Garland Brinkley, an associate professor of public health at Touro University in California, argues that hookworm disease worsened in the years following the Civil War, thanks to deteriorating conditions and economic setbacks, and that the rise of those parasites only served to slow recovery even further.