We had a great talk today on our radio show--which we pre-recorded and will run over WARL and Blog Talk Radio next Weds, the day after Christmas, and this article is one of the remarkable things we discovered during our interview with
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, PhD
Professor Emerita of Anthropology & Joint Doctoral Program in Education,
Rhode Island College
Adjunct Professor of African Studies at Naval War College, Newport
Editor, Sudan Studies Association Bulletin
Secretary and Newsletter Editor, RI Beekeepers' Association
cfluehr@ric.edu
Make sure you listen next Weds and any day thereafter to my interview with Carolyn and my co-host today, Jim Murphy.
In the meantime we are happy to share this story and pretty amazing side of honey:
"Anecdotal reports of honey healing anti-bacterial resistant wounds abound in beekeeping circles. A recent case was brought to my attention by a local tradesman who was working in New York city on a project and suffered an in-jury to his wrist that worsened into an abscessed open wound that required hospitalization. Hospitalized for two days the wound failed to respond to antibiotic and anti-bacterial treatment and it was feared that the infection was a case of MRSA, a highly contagious and resistant new bacteria. MRSA, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, is a new “superbug” that is re-sponsible for an estimated 19,000 deaths in the US and 368,000 hospitalizations per year. MRSA can be twice as deadly when compared with ordinary staph infections. MRSA is proving to be multi-drug resistant to a growing number of antibiotics in the penicillin and erythromycin categories and it is a growing problem in hospitals, prisons, schools, and nursing homes where patients with open wounds and weakened im-mune systems are at greater risk of infection. Some can be treated with so-called last re-sort antibiotics, but others prove non-responsive"
There's more and we'll post it soon.
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