I don't want to make TOO much of this, but I haven't had a cold or the flu since I was 12 (and I'm 66 now). When we were kids, we dug trenches in the woods, made dams in the creeks, and just generally tussled around in the dirt every day. We came home for dinner in Summer covered with dirt and you KNOW we had do have gotten a lot of it inside.
Today they call it "probiotic" but we just called it "dirt". LOL! And Mom was on an endless crusade to rid us of it. Little did she know...