Boffin fights superbug with honey

Link: Daily Mail.

A British scientist has clinched a £28,000 grant to fund research into how simple breakfast honey can combat the killer MRSA superbug. Microbiologist Dr Rose Cooper, based at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, began studying the health benefits of honey eight years ago, and now she is savouring the sweet smell of success. Cash from the British Society for Anti-Microbial Chemotherapy will fund 12 months' research into the role of New Zealand manuka honey in the fight against MRSA. Look here too... Skip gossip links to more articles     * Honey money to fight superbug     * NHS bosses acknowledge staff stress     * 23 killed by rabid bats in Brazil     * Expert sets out key to long life     * Primrose oil may help fight cancer     * 'One in four suffers drink problem' Dr Cooper will study how common breakfast-table honey, Down Under, made by bees which collect nectar from the wild manuka bush, affects cell division in MRSA.