The Daily Telegraph | Parasites linked to sewage fertiliser as stomach bugs grip Sydney
Human sewage used as fertiliser on farms across NSW is being blamed for a breakout of Third World parasites across Sydney.
Human sewage used as fertiliser on farms across NSW is being blamed for a breakout of Third World parasites across Sydney.
Once a year, every year, Professor Thomas Borody receives a single-stem rose from one of his most grateful patients. She is, he says, thanking him for restoring her bowel flora.
For physicians and researchers alike, fecal transplants present an opportunity to gain insight into disease.
“I was born in Krakow in 1950 in Poland and we arrived in Sydney 15th of January, 1960. It was quite a contrast when we arrived we live now in a western world and we no longer had such restrictions as we did.”
AUSTRALIAN scientists have developed an antibody to fight a hospital superbug that has claimed thousands of lives in Britain and the US.