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The current issue of  "Scientific American" has a write-up on fecal 
transfusion in humans to replace intestinal flora in cases of persistent 
diarrhea.  Seems to work very well.  Done by anal catheter, though, not 
orally.

Walter Weller
Louisiana
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>I thought bees had evolved behaviours that prevented the transfer of fecel 
>material by mouth.

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