Interesting article in BBC about phage therapy.
I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo – could it save your life?
Phage – the friendly virus
Phage science may sound new and exciting, but it is actually a century old idea stemming from the discoveries of Felix d’Hérelle and Frederick Twort in the 1910s.
Bacteriophage therapy was a branch of medicine and the idea was compelling. Even as late as the 1940s there was an active pharmaceutical industry in western countries trying to produce phage-therapy to defeat bacterial infections.
However, it was rapidly eclipsed by the wonder-drug of the 20th century.
“Antibiotics were working so well that most people said ‘why bother’,” says Dr Nobrega.
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