I submit that children of today are weak and pathetic. The link isn't news though. My parents always said the same thing, and it was even muttered as an aside on an episode of "House" years ago. My mother claims they used to play with E. coli in her high school microbiology class, that it never was this dire threat it is now.

Also, the healing properties of mud and clay are well-known, if generally ignored by the medical profession (tomorrow's quacks and punchlines, taken seriously today! ).