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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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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