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

    ....in a test tube.

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