Should Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?
A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.
For the past several years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been trying to figure out how to regulate human feces.
Fecal transplants are an for a gut infection called . The microbes in the stool of a healthy donor repopulate the gut microbiome of a sick patient. But some: An immunocompromised patient died after acquiring drug-resistant bacteria from a stool donor.
