April 18, 2016

When I got a C. diff infection in 2012, I was pregnant with my third child. Nothing in my experience—growing up on a farm with 3 brothers, being a single-mother to 3 kids, fighting hunger in rural Pennsylvania at the human services center where I work—prepared me to wrestle with …

April 12, 2016

A new study has found that communities of viruses can be transferred from donor to recipient during fecal transplants, according to mBio, an open-access journal from the American Society for Microbiology. Luckily, the viruses that were transmitted in this study appear to be non pathogenic, or harmless to humans. Fecal …