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Now, Doctors have figured out how to put healthy people’s poop into pills. These pills can cure serious gut infections. Doctors have tried this method on 27 patients and cured them. Doctors tested this treatment and now figured out that it must be made fresh for the patients. If not, the pills might dissolve at room temperature. Clostridium difficile gets half a million Americans get this infection and 14,000 people often die. This infection can cause the human body to have nausea, diarrhea, and cramping. Dr. Louie says “There’s no stool left, just stool bugs these people are just eating poop.” Dr. louie hopes that this new application in medicine will not be just about Clostridium

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