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The space station is so clean it's making astronauts sick

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The International Space Station (ISS) where two NASA astronauts were stranded for nine months is so clean it's making crews sick, a new study suggests.

Earth is home to roughly one trillion species of microbes, some of which make people sick.

But the ISS has a much lower diversity of microbes than our home planet, and most of the species that live there were carried there by astronauts.

The lack of good bacteria on the space station may be suppressing astronauts' immune systems, making them more vulnerable to rashes, cold sores, fungal infections, shingles and other ailments.

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