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Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims by aesh2Xa1 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:54PM (#14389454)
Yeah, this seems like woo. At best I would hazard to guess that the honey provides an antibiotic effect and is perhaps a slightly acidic pH causing high cell turnover.
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Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims by karmajunkie on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:27PM (#14390329)
Honey has an antimicrobial effect that's been known for thousands of years. This isn't the article I went looking for about it, but interesting all the same:

http://www.academia.edu/2189571/Pdf_6_The_antibacterial_acti...

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Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims by paganel on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:11PM (#14389517)
The antibiotic effect all by itself would be nothing to scoff at. I mentioned it as a reply to a previous comment, but I don't personally think that the human skin is made to re-generate all by itself after pouring more than half of a pan of burning oil on the arm section.
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