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A new and intriguing discovery has let us to change on how we see poop. Despite the stench of the feces, Dr. Thomas Louie of the University of Calgary has made up a way to use stool bugs as a pill to cure a fatal gut disease known as Clostridium difficile or C-diff. Half a million Americans get infected with this disease and about 14,000 die each year. You can get this by touching surfaces contaminated with feces, then touch your mouth. Symptoms include nausea, cramps, and diarrhea. These symptoms can become extremely severe that it is often disabling. You can take a highly strong antibiotic which can permanently kill C-diff. However, the antibiotic will destroy other useful bacteria in the gut, causing more problems later on. You can also

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