University of Florida
A University of Florida researcher has compiled the first-ever study that identifies the role of breast milk bile acids — a breakthrough that could help lessen the incidence of the deadly norovirus in infants, which claims the lives of at least 50,000 children every year.
Because newborns don't have an established gut microbiome — the collection of friendly bacteria that helps humans digest nutrients and respond to intestinal pathogens — they are especially susceptible to the norovirus, which is one of the leading causes of newborn deaths worldwide.
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