LOTION DESTROYS SUPERBUG

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<font size=3>LOTION DESTROYS SUPERBUG </font>

Deadly hospital superbug MRSA may have finally met its match - a lotion developed by a humble trucker.

Brian Bennett, 64, has no medical or scientific training and stumbled across the solution as he tried to develop a hand cream for his 42-year-old wife.

Experts are convinced the cream will save many lives from the bug, which killed 800 people in British hospitals in 2002, The Sun has reported.

Tests showed that Mr Bennett's lotion destroys MRSA within seconds and can protect people for up to four hours, acting like an invisible glove.

More on this Kewl Story (http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13075263,00.html)

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For the curious...

MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Fact Sheet (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm)

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Staphylococcus aureus, often referred to simply as "staph," are bacteria commonly carried on the skin or in the nose of healthy people. Occasionally, staph can cause an infection; staph bacteria are one of the most common causes of skin infections in the United States. Most of these infections are minor (such as pimples and boils) and most can be treated without antibiotics (also known as antimicrobials or antibacterials). However, staph bacteria can also cause serious infections (such as surgical wound infections and pneumonia). In the past, most serious staph bacteria infections were treated with a certain type of antibiotic related to penicillin. Over the past 50 years, treatment of these infections has become more difficult because staph bacteria have become resistant to various antibiotics, including the commonly used penicillin-related antibiotics (1). These resistant bacteria are called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

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