French Muck: The New Penicillin for MRSA? (28 October 2007)
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3104663.ece
<http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3104663.ece>
Scientists have discovered a new and highly effective weapon against
deadly superbugs like the MRSA sweeping through Britain's dirty hospital
wards – green French muck. The dramatic antibiotic success of agricur, a
clay made from ancient volcanic ash found near the Massif Central, marks
it out as a potential rival to penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th
century. In experiments, the clay killed up to 99 per cent of superbug
colonies within 24 hours. Control samples of MRSA (methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus) grew 45-fold in the same period. The
clay has a similar effect on other deadly bacteria tested, including
salmonella, E. coli, and a flesh-eating disease called buruli, a
relative of leprosy which disfigures children across central and western
Africa. It has been classed as "an emerging public health threat" by the
World Health Organization (WHO).
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