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Wiping Out H. Pylori Can Backfire
Posted on August 28, 2008
It makes perfect sense to wipe out bacteria that cause cancer and other nasty diseases, right? According to Martin Blaser, an NYU School of Medicine microbiologist, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, Blaser implicates the dwindling population of a bacterium called H. pylori, which can trigger stomach ulcers and gastric cancer, for causing conditions equally as dire. For one thing, he thinks that as H. pylori disappears, obesity rates go up. He also believes that the disappearance of the pathogen may be leading to more cases of esophageal cancer and childhood asthma. Apparently...
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