Researchers have made a major medical breakthrough by developing a vaccine against the crippling digestive illness Crohn’s disease

More than 100,000 people in the UK are stricken by the condition, which causes a chronic inflammation of the intestine. Professor John Hermon-Taylor of St George’s Hospital, London, has developed a vaccine which should be ready within the next five years. It has already been tested successfully on animals and second-stage trials are to start soon, with human trials in the next three years.

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