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Lab tests verify medicinal qualities of ant honey

Australian honeypot ants produce honey with antibacterial and antifungal properties, researchers have found, in a discovery that brings western science up to speed with Indigenous knowledge.

honey has been used by First Nations people in their traditional medicine for

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