Widespread use of antibiotics for conditions that don’t require them has spurred mutations in bacteria strains, turning them into so-called superbugs.

As a result, some of the diseases that once were easily treatable with antibiotics, such as pneumonia and kidney infections, are becoming deadly again. But a recent lab test in Britain showed that men’s facial hair is teeming with a variety of bacteria, all fighting for survival. Some of them produce substances with antibiotic properties.

“So from 20 beards we managed to isolate at least a hundred different isolates from them, and around 25 percent of these showed antibiotic activity against read more >>>

Source : VOANews.Com