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Using fish skin from Tilapia as a band-aid (better than gauze) (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Fish skin is being sterilized and used for skin grafts on burn victims in #Brazil and #Colombia (on both human and non-human animals). It’s superior to gauze and ointment. IIRC, pig skin was used at one point. Apparently fish skin is better at sealing moisture in?

Anyone taking bets on whether folks in the Goth scene will start grafting fish scales on for fashion?

This BBC episode covers it (among other unrelated topics):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4wkk

This (⚠enshitified) ABC News article covers how the fish skin is used on wildlife rescues:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fish-skin-heal-burn-wounds-work/story?id=57122126

^ ⚠warning: that shitty website plays videos automatically, thus drains bandwidth for those on limited connections. (And wtf.. why isn’t there a conventional way to tag such URLs to spare us from verbosity?)

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[–] teft@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

Colombia*