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Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by voldacar on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:22PM (#19686600)
Your comment reminds me of that weird medieval remedy that turned out to be able to kill MRSA (!) [0]

There's certainly plenty of BS in the traditional medicine world, but there may be a lot of remedies lurking right under science's nose.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasty-medieval-rem...

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Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by xenadu02 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:12AM (#19689086)
That's a case of "broken clock right twice a day".

Out of the tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of medieval so-called remedies it turns out _one_ is accidentally useful.

It would be more surprising if absolutely none of the remedies were useful. You'd expect at least one or two hits just from chance.

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