Researchers from Cardiff University and University of Maryland have revealed that a cup of the widely-available English Breakfast tea may act as an antidote to bacillus anthracis, popularly called anthrax. The activity of anthrax, a potentially fatal disease, is inhibited by polyphenols present in the tea. Published in Society for Applied Microbiology’s journal Microbiologist, the research further says that the addition of whole milk to tea completely curbs the antibacterial activity against the disease.