https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6390993/Bacteria-eating-viruses-cured-dozen-Americans-superbugs-rarely-used.html
Is the solution to antibiotic resistance in SEWAGE? Bacteria-eating viruses have cured over a dozen Americans of superbugs – but the FDA has long dismissed it as ‘Soviet pseudoscience’
- Bacteriophages are the most populous organism on the planet
- Each type of these viruses, or phages, targets a specific bacteria – including antibiotic resistant ones
- Every year, 23,000 Americans die of superbug infections
- Until the last several years, bacteriophage were maligned and considered Soviet pseudoscience
- But the viruses are making a comeback in a few US labs
- Doctors at the University of California, San Diego, founded the first US phage therapy program
- They have saved six people there, and six in other hospitals, but few companies have tried – much less succeeded – to make the treatment commercially viable
- Though two clinical trials are supposedly in the works, the FDA has only approved the use of phages on a case-by case basis
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