The secret cause of atrial fibrillation (AF) has been unmasked. And the cure could be as easy as a course of antibiotics? In a clinical study of arrhythmia patients, Dr. Annibale Sandro Montnero of MultiMedica General Hospital in Milan, Italy, found they are 20 times more likely to be infected with a common germ. Merely treating this germ with an antibiotic reduced or cured the problem." Source: Junk mail flyer for Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2009, PO Box 11400, Des Moines, IA 50381-1400