The first Canadian study using phages to treat superbug infections is underway with scientists reporting a preliminary but encouraging early success case.
  • kephalos@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Phages were studied intensively in the Soviet Union and it’s block states during the Cold War and I remember seeing documentaries on German Tv with patients tracking to tiblisi, Georgia, to receive phage therapy

    • maëlys@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      i had a couple of replies with some major poster here before: research in such field wouldn’t be made by big pharma, since antibiotics is their cash cow. in fact they lobby doctors to over prescribe antibiotics , hence the superbugs (which is a case in 1 million or something, not economically viable to develop a treatement for it. but they’r testing the limits: it wouldnt help if everyone is hosting mrsa either)