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.
At least that's the hope. If they're are right, they've discovered the herbal equivalent of Neosporin.
That guy who puts wiredware antivirus on new computers wants to fix us.



