Posted on 05/02/2014 11:59:17 AM PDT by Kartographer
Experiments in animals have demonstrated this, decades ago. Animals *always* have some gut inflammation, but when the gut flora are wiped out with antibiotics, the inflammation disappears.
Without the constant vigilance of the immune system, those gut bacteria would consume our bodies. That is one reason a gut perforation is so dangerous.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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