non-communicable diseases

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/medical/heart-disease-contagious-study-suggests-non-communicable-diseases-might-be-spread-through-gut-bacteria/ar-BBZ3Amu?li=AA4RDh

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In a paper appearing in this week’s issue of the journal Science, Canadian microbiologist Brett Finlay and colleagues point to growing data suggesting that cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and other diseases long considered not transmissible from one person to another might actually spread like stomach bugs.

“It really leads to a rather almost heretical postulate — that non-communicable diseases, which basically means non-infectious diseases, might actually be communicable,” said Finlay, a renowned microbiome researcher at the University of British Columbia.

“And, given that 70 per cent of the people in the world die of what we call non-communicable diseases, it gives you a whole different way of looking at these things.”

While still a hypothesis — and much more research is needed — where there’s smoke, there’s fire, Finlay said. “And there’s an awful lot of smoke.”

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

If true, that would be...ummmm...bad.

[chakoo]

Man the earth and life really wants us dead.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I would be severely pissed if I got Type 2 Diabetes because someone coughed.

[CitizenVectron]

Yeah I know that there are growing links to gut bacteria and auto-immune diseases.

 

It shouldn't be surprising, considering that there are thousands of species living inside of us, far outnumbering our own cells.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

We are but mere hosts