Category Archives: Flesh Eating Virus and Prevention
Flesh Eating Disease Treatment and Prevention: Is Mutant Gene the Key?
A mutant gene may be the key that would help us humans combat the rare but deadly flesh eating virus. Here’s the press release (from back in December 2009) about a research study by The Methodist Research Institute in Houston which found that a gene mutation lessens the deadly effect of the flesh eating bacteria.
Leishmaniasis Treatment: Bill and Melinda Gates vs. Flesh Eating Bacteria
Look who’s just joined the battle against lechmaniasis and the sandflies that spread the disease? It’s the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!
Flesh Eating Bacteria Treatment
While we’re still on the subject of treatment against the flesh-eating disease, here’s a news release about how a group of scientists have discovered some clues that could help us fight the bacteria that causes the disease.
Oxygen Therapy for Flesh Eating Disease?
The flesh-eating disease is typically treated with antibiotics but the Kent Hospital Wound Recovery Center is claiming that its hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can supposedly stop the disease. From the Warwick Beacon:
