Mike ScottSenior Journalist·NZ Herald·3 Oct, 2026 08:00 PM11 mins to readHalf the world carries it. Most Kiwis have never heard of it. It's linked to 75% of stomach cancers, and New Zealand still isn't screening for it. Video / Mike ScottA tenacious bacterium has outlasted the stomach’s acid for thousands of years, mostly unnoticed. Finding and treating it could save hundreds of Kiwi lives. Mike Scott reports.The human stomach is a pot of acid and enzymes churning and killing most of what you swallow. For almost all microbes it
H.pylori: The group one carcinogen lurking in Kiwi tummies and why NZ doesn’t screen for it
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