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| Subject: New protein could rival antibiotics Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:13 pm | |
| AUSTRALIAN scientists have made a breakthrough in finding a powerful alternative to antibiotics - at a time when the World Health Organisation is predicting a bleak future in which bug-killing drugs are so ineffective that ''a child's scratched knee or a strep throat could kill again''.
The threat of the world returning to a pre-antibiotic era has been fretted about for at least a decade because of microbes becoming increasingly resistant to drugs.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/new-protein-could-rival-antibiotics-20120728-232uo.html#ixzz21yBouNIy
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