A placebo-controlled randomized trial found fecal microbiota transplantation was safe but failed to reduce recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection.
Decisions about investing in building wastewater surveillance capacity should consider the vast economic and social cost of responding to infectious diseases not detected and arrested early, the authors say.
In other developments, health officials have reported in utero spread of the virus and the first case of the year in North Africa.
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