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I recently discovered an article in Mercola.com, a natural health website, discussing how Harvard researchers have found that hundreds of soil microbes literally eat antibiotics, and that they can thrive on antibiotics as their ONLY nutritional source. It turns out these many species of bacteria, some related to current SuperBug bacteria, can exist solely on antibiotics as their only food source.
Should you be worried about this new information?
See the full story at Antibiotic Eating Bacteria and Staph SuperBugs
Sources: ABC News April 3, 2008, Science April 4, 2008
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