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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Bancroft

Poo transplants to be offered to hundreds of NHS patients with superbugs

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Hundreds of patients with hard-to-treat superbugs are to be offered poo transplants on the NHS using gut bacteria from a healthy person’s faeces.

The treatment aims to restore healthy bacteria to the suffering patient by transfering it from healthy donor poo into their gut.

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