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>reason we developed cutlery
It's to avoid parasites, particularly pinworms.
Kids get pinworms all the time because they eat with their filthy hands and put their fingers in their mouths.
Adults use cutlery to avoid the fecal-oral route of common pathogens like pinworms.
Pinworm eggs can easily survive hand washing. And India is riddled with pinworms. That's why they have a forced National Deworming Day each year