CREOSOTE BUSH -v-GIARDIA

 Creosote Bush that grows in the Mojave desert and it can live for two years without water. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4OWEH6jnE

Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Pharmacy and US San Diego have found that compounds produced by the creosote bush exhibit potent anti-parasitic activity against two deadly parasites. One of the parasotes (Giardia lamnlia) is responsible for giardia infections - common to campers and hikers. The other, (Nagleria fowleri) causes an often-lethal form of encephalitis. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3UODIfSXvU