I'm sitting in a little restaurant in Key Largo and they've got this brochure with bee information for some reason, and according to it, beehives are "the most sterile place in nature." So I did some research while I waited for my muffins and found this article about propolis. Very interesting.
Honey is anti-microbial and anti-bacterial, too. At least the real stuff is. That's one of the complaints that honey vendors in the US have - there are no standards for anything but sugar content for foreign honey so most of the sue-bee shit you buy at the grocery store is nothing but glucose and food coloring.
The real stuff is halfway to neosporin.