Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)
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The History of Summer Diarrhea
In the early 1900s, kids and infants in industrialized countries would get super sick with diarrhea. A British pathologist named John Bray decided to hunt for what might be causing this. Using antibody tests, he found that while only 4% of the healthy kids responded to the E. coli antibody test, like they were positive, 95% of sick kids did.
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