Scientists catalog zoo of bacteria inside our guts

Associated Press ^ | Mar 3, 2010 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[decimon]

Zoo are you ping.

[donhunt]

Hot damn!!! I don’t feel alone now.

[a fool in paradise]

"Wanna go see the zoo?"

[rfp1234]

Our President’s head hangs out inside his gut, every day.

[goseminoles]

I’ll need pictures.

[PeteB570]

Hot Sauce!

Eat some food with lots of Tabasco Sauce on it and you can kill off about 90% of those little critters. Take ‘um a few days to built up their strength again.

At least it seems that way :-)

[a fool in paradise]

Yogurt also helps.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

"I think it's important that people realize that we are not really human — we are a walking colony of bacteria and they are crucial for our well being and health."

Stupidest comment ever.
Does that mean bacteria are 'not really bacteria' also? They rely on humans for their food source.
The Earth isn't a planet, it's just a large asteroid.
Who will be the first bacteria to win the Noble Prize in Biology?

[Habibi]

Only 170?!?! I would have thought there would be lots more species than that. Anyway, glad to have ‘em. I’ve had sterile gut in the past, and it ain’t no fun. Best to keep plenty of them working for you. Life would not be good without them.

[1010RD]

What is the nexus between this and evolution? How incredible is it that we need these bacteria?

[count-your-change]

“More than 99 percent of the cases of inflammatory bowel disease are correlated with the reading of AP news releases.”

“We are not really human...”, Mike Robes.

See? I knew it all along, we are not alone. Give your gut a hug!

[decimon]

More from AFP: Study raises hope for gut disease cures

[hellbender]

"I think it's important that people realize that we are not really human — we are a walking colony of bacteria and they are crucial for our well being and health."

Such statements "bug" me. The bacteria in our guts are tolerate by our immune systems. Bugs which make us sick are killed off. I suppose that chimps have many of the same gut bacteria. Does that mean that chimps are not chimps, as we are "not human"? The bugs may be much the same, but the hosts are different nonetheless.

[SunkenCiv]

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[fanfan]

Whoa!

[fanfan]

I added a keyword. :-)

[bigheadfred]

danged illegal aliens...

Danged illesophagal aliens...

[PeteB570]

Yogurt feeds the little buggers.

Hot Sauce or a big dip of ‘baccer make the little buggers run and hide.

[SunkenCiv]

I wondered who it was. :’)