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U.S. Buys New Anti-biotic Drug from Israel Laboratory

August 17, 1954
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Thyrotricin, one of the new antibiotic drugs used for sterilization of external wounds, has been shipped from the Rafa Laboratories in Jerusalem, to the United States, while U.S. offshore purchase orders for substantial quantities of carrots have been awarded to Israeli growers in the Negev, for use of American military forces in Europe, it was reported here today.

The Rafa laboratories are now producing, in addition to the thyrotricin, about 1,000,000 vials of penicillin and streptomycin a month, the report says. It estimates that a third of the antibiotics used in Greece and Turkey now come from the laboratory in Jerusalem.

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