It turns out viruses are good for you.
I would say this is more than mildly interesting.
Good point, I was trying to find a sub dedicated to both health and science but couldn't find one so I settled for this one.
The Russians are way ahead of the west in this area. They have pharma companies already manufacturing bacteriophage cocktails.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682213003024
A phone call later, Strathdee discovered phage treatment was well established in former Soviet bloc countries but had been discounted long ago as “fringe science” in the West.
There's a lot of people that need to be dead over this topic.
Very interesting.
Truly awesome, although I bet his gut microbiome was eviscerated by the phages as well. I wonder if a fecal transplant would fix some of the lingering effects of the treatment.
Phages are pretty specific in the bacteria they target, so it probably didn't affect his gut much.
I could see that. Although I imagine they did try numerous antibiotic treatments unsuccessfully until finally stumbling upon this remedy.
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