An elderly man in Japan developed a fatal bacterial infection after taking a probiotic as part of his treatment for severe COVID-19. The unidentified patient was first brought to the emergency room ...

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After battling a severe COVID-19 infection, a man’s prescribed probiotics led to a deadly response, doctors said. Michał Parzuchowski via Unsplash A man in his 70s arrived at a Japanese hospital after ...

In a new report, doctors in Japan detail how the man was killed by a popular supplement containing Clostridium butyricum. Reading time 2 minutes An unlucky chain of events seems to have resulted in a ...

A man in his 70s arrived at a Japanese hospital after he was found on the floor of his home. He was in and out of consciousness, and there was a crackling sound in his left lung. During a CT scan of ...