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Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-only-we-could-get-vitamin-C-into-common-foods dept.

AndyKrish writes "A BBC story reports that scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University found Vitamin C kills drug resistant tuberculosis (abstract). Though results are preliminary — the lead investigator of the study said, 'We have only been able to demonstrate this in a test tube, and we don't know if it will work in humans and in animals' — this is an exciting development in the fight against drug-resistant TB."

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  1. Vitamin C... by sconeu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somewhere in heaven, Linus Pauling is laughing his head off...

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    1. Re:Vitamin C... by D1G1T · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Seeing as how most TB is in places where FDA has no jurisdiction, I don't think that will be a problem.

  2. Vitamin C Resistance by Continental+Drift · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Even if it works, in short order we'll have vitamin C resistant tuberculosis. Next up, miracle cure X, and cure X resistant tuberculosis. I'm all for miracle cures, but let's keep in mind that all viruses and parasites mutate to deal with our cures.

  3. Fire also kills drug resistant tuberculosis..... by EvilSS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ....in a test tube.

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