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petesergeanttoday at 12:23 PM1 replyview on HN

The blog articles (6 weeks old) describes this as new, but the linked paper is closer to 6 months old. Random report of the same bacteria giving a chemo patient sepsis: https://www.cureus.com/articles/342789-sepsis-caused-by-ewin... which seems unfortunate


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degamadtoday at 12:31 PM

Yep, I found that one too - this paper <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710904/> assumes immunocompetent mice, while the sepsis one was in a patient who was immunocompromised (both by the cancer and by chemo).

Given that many cancer sufferers are immunocompromised, this isn't necessarily a silver bullet, although it is an interesting result.