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Going to the hospital is usually bad news. Catching C.Difficile is worse considering that most hospitals in Canada have this nasty bug roaming around, not to mention the stuff already resides in most of our colons. When things get ugly is when antibiotics have killed all the helpful bacteria in our guts allowing C.diff to throwdown and start raising the roof causing fecal mayhem for all those involved. However, all is not lost.
“A unique antibody from a llama could prove to be a key weapon against C. difficile, a nasty infection that is a growing problem in many hospitals throughout North America.
Clostridium difficile is a common cause of infectious diarrhea in nursing homes and hospitals and usually occurs in patients who have been taking regular antibiotics for an infection.”
The one of the usual treatments is fecal bacteriotherapy which is finding compatable donor feces and repopulating 
your intestinal gut-flora so the C.diff house party can stop. Of course, having a reverse enema with someone else’s poop somehow seems a little disquieting to most…
“New research from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council in Ottawa suggests that simple antibodies from the llama can interfere with the disease-causing toxins from the infection.
U of C professor Dr. Kenneth Ng said that discovery moves them a step closer to understanding how to neutralize the toxins and create novel treatments for the disease.”
Thank you our lovely, albeit smelly, Llama friends; for possibly preventing reverse-poop enemas in a hospital near you in the future.
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