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April 13, 2009 at 11:08 am 1 comment
Anyone who has an interest in health matters may find The Health Sciences Institute (HSI) regular briefings of interest. They published an article on 11th. April 09 about the Danish scientist Niels Finsen.He won the Nobel prize in 1903. He discovered that ultra violet was a great enemy of bacteria. As the HSI puts it “Since then, countless studies have confirmed that ultra- violet light is lethal not just to tuberculosis bacteria, but to 99.99% of other bacteria and viruses, as well as other microbial organisms, like house dust mites and mould.
So, why isn’t Finsen’s discovery used today in every hospital in our battle against ‘super’ strains of bacteria and viruses, such as MRSA, C.Difficile and E.Coli? ” The HSI report makes for fascinating reading and you will gain from doing so.
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