Allison Adonizio, ethnobotanist post-doc from Harvard and John McAfee, of the computer anti-virus fame think they've discovered the next great antibiotic in the jungles of Belize. It's all-natural. It's unpatentable. It's untested. And thanks to our business of medicine, it's not coming to America. it's called Quorumex...
"It grows wild along the shores of the New River, among the Mayan ruins of Lamanai, next to the lilies that are home to little yellow birds that skip across the pads. Inside Belizean plants used for generations by native healers, a suite of chemicals produce a natural "anti-quorum sensing" effect that interrupts bacteria's ability to communicate. And bacteria that can't communicate don't go pathogenically virulent…"
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