The doctors are injecting the children with oily chloramphenicol, endorsed by the World Health Organization as the recommended treatment for bacterial meningitis epidemics.

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Treatment of both viral and bacterial acute sinusitis is primarily supportive care.

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There are a large number of life saving drugs for the treatment of heart disease, bacterial infections and additional cancers that are becoming increasingly unavailable because the profit is no longer sufficient to satisfy the business plans of the pharmaceutical companies despite their having made billions when these drugs were under patent protection.

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Even today, the bacteriophage is used as standard treatment in parts of Eastern Europe for bacterial infections from gangrene to strep throat.

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If those tests are successful, though, then DRACO may well be as revolutionary for the treatment of viral infections as penicillin was for bacterial infections.

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Only bacterial sinusitis should be treated with antibiotics and even those cases usually resolve without antibiotic treatment.

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