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Could a gut parasite hold the cure for asthma? |
Asthma UK is funding research, led by Professor John Britton, of the University of Nottingham, along with Dr Gail Davey and colleagues at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, that studies over 1,000 children born in urban and rural areas of Butajira in southern Ethiopia to see whether infection of the gut with either hookworms or other gut parasites protects against developing asthma later in life.
Click here for more research on possible treatments for asthma Firstt Published in May 2008 |