Self-medicating gorillas and traditional healers may hold clues to new medicines
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Self-medicating gorillas and traditional healers may hold clues to new medicines Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties, according to Gabonese scientists. They observed western lowlan
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Original Title: Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties. The bark of all four plants showed antibacterial activity against at least one multidrug-resistant strain of the bacterium E. coli.