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Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

The prize-winning discovery explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

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Chris Mason, the BBC’s political editor, is stuck up Nigel Farage’s arse and there appears to be little prospect of an imminent extraction.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 02 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01242-2Clostridioides difficile infection is challenging to diagnose and treat and is associated with considerable mortality, morbidity and economic costs worldwide. In this Review, Chilton et al. discuss changes in global epidemiology, breakthroughs in pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance, the role of microbiota dysbiosis and the potential for microbiota-based therapeutics for Clostridioides difficile infection.