Silent carriage
Many adults never know unless a test is done for another reason.
East Asia's historically high burden made endoscopy and serology part of ordinary adult talk in some clinics.
Treatment, when offered, is a combination decided by a clinician. This page will not write the combination.
Body interfaces
Peptic ulcer
Pain, bleeding or perforation can follow years of gastritis.
Gastric cancer risk
IARC Group 1 is a population classification, not a personal sentence.
Korea curve
Falling infection tracks plumbing, smaller families and treatment access.
NSAID overlap
Pills that help joints can still ulcerate a stomach that never met H. pylori.
Family clustering
Siblings and parents often share status, supporting childhood acquisition.
Black stools or sudden severe pain are emergencies, not encyclopedia moments.
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Influenza
A winter respiratory virus of drift and rare shift — surveillance and vaccines, not a cartoon villain.
Familiarity 93Tuberculosis
An airborne bacillus of latency and long care — programmes and air, not a drug recipe.
Familiarity 70Escherichia coli
Usually a gut resident; a minority of STEC pathotypes drive foodborne headlines.
Familiarity 82Staphylococcus aureus
A common skin neighbor and a resistance story called MRSA — not scare porn.
Familiarity 78Norovirus
A very-low-dose gut virus of schools and ships — soap and bleach surfaces, not alcohol-gel faith.
Familiarity 80