WHY is FMT (Fecal Microbiota Transplantation) as a remedy for c. difficile related colitis ‘banned’ in the USA and encouraged in Europe?

 

ANSWER: Because it’s cheap as shit and Pfizer and other drug companies stand to make literally BILLIONS on a vaccine for “d. cifficile infections” (THE REALITY IS that rather that c.difficile being a ‘pathogen’ it is a microbe that proliferates under conditions of imbalance in the microbial assemblage in the gut).  A widespread acceptance of FMT as in Europe, will negate BILLIONS in projected pharmaceutical company revenues.

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c. diff causes about half a million infections and 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year

While the FMT (stool transplant) treatment is close to 100 percent effective as a cure for c. difficile related colitis, it is not allowed in the U.S. unless one has had 3 or more recurrent bouts of this imbalance in the intestinal microbial assemblage.

WONDER WHY FMT IS NOT THE GENERAL REMEDIAL APPROACH FOR C. DIFFICILE?

“Back in May, a Moody’s report predicted the vaccine being developed for c. difficile infections would launch in 2021 and generate peak sales of $300 million.

But Barclays analyst Carter Gould thinks the vaccine has more promise than that. Along with Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine, the candidate has “the potential to drive an inflection in growth across the vaccines business which provides a durable revenue contribution,”

— Gould’s team (Sanofi) sees the vaccine as a “high risk/high reward opportunity,” and predicts it could generate $2 billion by 2030″.

 

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THE KEY POINTS ON WHAT IS GOING ON HERE CAN BE GLEANED FROM JUXTAPOSING THE FOLLOWING THREE ARTICLES (The URL’s, Article titles and a short extract from each of the three are included below).

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