Prior to the late 80s or early 90s, stomach ulcers were widely believed to be caused by stress or spicy foods. H. Pylori was cultured in 1982, and that work resulted in a 2005 Nobel Prize.
Even after the 1982 discovery, the medical community was very skeptical. One of the scientists went so far as to infect himself with H. Pylori in order to prove it as the causative agent. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disease_and_Helicobacter_pylori …
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Despite the growing evidence for H. Pylori, the medical establishment's conventional wisdom stuck with stress and diet as the cause of ulcers for many years. What other conditions may be caused by pathogens, the possibility of which is largely ignored?
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One possibility in particular that shares many similarities with stomach ulcers and H. Pylori: Crohn's disease and mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (a bacteria in the same genus as the commonly known tuberculosis)
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