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The Completely Natural and Safe "Antibiotic"

  • November 01, 2004

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a natural, germ-fighting "antibiotic" of sorts that can stop life-threatening infections without the need to administer the real thing. Such infections can be defeated by handwashing, one of medicine's oldest and most powerful treatments. In a review of some 2,300 patients admitted from 2000-02 who stayed in the hospital for almost three weeks, 3.4 percent developed staph infections, although none had a known resistance to antibiotics. That...