Man’s gut infection cured using a stranger’s healthy poop

Microbiota from healthy poop are used in Singapore to cure recurrent gut infections of the C. diff bacterium. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO
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SINGAPORE – A stranger’s healthy poop might have saved Mr Hill Yang’s life.

At the start of 2022, the 43-year-old director of an education firm began having diarrhoea. He was nauseous and also lost his appetite.

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