Posts Tagged: Feces
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Important Medical Advancement Also Totally Disgusting

"There's little doubt this treatment has an image problem. Feces, including important bowel flora, is transferred from a volunteer donor—screened to limit possible other infections—into the colon of the infected patient. The treatment can be administered by a colonoscope or an enema, or by the mouth or the nose." —A terrible disease, the Clostridium difficile bug, can cause severe diarrhea, blood poisoning and lead to death, and has proven highly resistant to anti-biotics. But Sydney-based gastroenterologist Thomas Borody has developed an amazingly successful cure. And given the choice, most patients say, "Yes, please, put someone else's poop inside me." So this is a very good, important thing. Now [...]

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If You See Something, Shit Something

As a homeless man in Phoenix makes a feces deposit in a train, one brave New Yorker takes a stand against a different, but also feces-based, attempted doody drop. WARNING: Both links contain feces.