It's a bacteria and I'll bet that if one would apply garlic water or take a bath in crushed raw non-irradiated garlic (CRG) diluted in a tub of water at the very onset of it that it would go away shortly and the patient would recover pretty much intact. The allicin in crushed raw non-irradiated garlic kills all known bacteria on contact and no bacteria can become resistant to it, including MRSA and probably totally drug resistant TB.
The problem is garlic is not an approved treatment protocol by the FDA so no doctor or hospital is allowed to use it. If they were, this terrible disease would be neutralized promptly. It has to be natural garlic that has not been irradiated and most garlic in American stores come from China and has been irradiated to make it look good on the store shelf longer and the radiation kills the enzyme, alliinase, which triggers the process that results in the formation of allicin so irradiated garlic simply will not work.
The allicin formed in crushed raw natural garlic kills in a more direct way than antibiotics and so bacteria cannot become resistant to it. It must be applied directly to the location where the bacteria is and eating it is of little or no value in killing bacteria although it does help build up the immune system. If one soaks in a tub of garlic water, it seeps through the skin and gets into circulation in the blood stream and kills bacteria wherever the bloodstream takes it. This continues until one gets out of the tub and then the stream of allicin stops passing through the skin and into the capillaries and eventually the immune system catches up with the remaining allicin in the system and neutralizes it. Under normal circumstances the half-life of allicin in human blood is less than one minute but the garlic water bath extends this greatly.
Unfortunately, Big Pharma has propagandized the FDA so completely that if anyone even mentions garlic, scorn and ridicule is heaped on them. One study even showed that the fumes from crhshed raw garlic killed all bacteria out to eight inches away from it over a period of four hours. When CRG is added to water and thoroughly mixed, every part of that water becomes strongly antimicrobial and wipes out all bacteria and none can survive in it yet doctors and hospitals are not allowed to use it.
It seems obvious that the FDA is looking out for Big Pharma's and Big Med's profits but seems to care little or nothing for the health and welfare of the American people whose interest they are supposed to be looking out for. I have had 15 or 20 people tell me how well garlic water baths killed their MRSA when even Vancomycin didn't work against it. Eating it won't work, it has to be applied in a way that it can soak in through the skin at the site of the lesion. If applied without diluting in water it can cause severe second degree burns but diluting it prevents burning and it is still a potent antimicrobial even when diluted by 100,000 parts of water to one part allicin.
In a garlic water bath, the bath works like a giant transdermal patch and allows a continual stream of allicin to circulate throughout the body but still, it is something that people have to discover for themselves and act on their own to use because doctors and hospitals are not allowed to recommend it and most of them don't know about it anyway.
I have pretty much lost faith in the health care systems' ability or willingness to prevent or cure bacterial diseases anyway and I think they may be reluctant to prevent or cure them since they make billions of dollars every year treating them and there is little practical incentive for them to prevent them and thereby greatly reduce their incomes.
People just have to look out for their own interests sometimes.
Sometimes I think I am just beating my head against the wall here but I keep on trying to educate people about garlic. The life you save may be your own.
If you are waiting for the FDA to come to your rescue, you can just about forget that, you have to take charge of your own health yourself when it comes to bacterial infections.
