Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Cockroaches are GROSS!

Cockroaches are known for invading your house, and scaring the little kids. Studies have found that they are now also useful for curing or even getting rid of very dangerous drug-resistant bactertial infections! British researchers at the University of Nottingham's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science are trying to learn more about it. Tissues of a cockroaches have molecules that fight bacteria like E. coli and MRSA! To be specifc, the tissues are mostly found in the critter's brain. They are said to kill more than 90 percent of dangerous bacterial infections. After this a team in U.K. are trying to find out if any other bugs fights off any kind of bacteria. Health experts now say that bacterial infections soon enough, will be entirely resistant to current treatments. Experts now realise that they need to hurry up and develop new classes of drugs that lets us know that we have enough viable treatment options!

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/do-cockroaches-hold-the-cure-for-drug-resistant-bacteria/19623630?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%7C169052

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