Bitten by the bug
Twenty years ago I taught my Higher human biology students about this very problem and showed them a video called A Virus That Cures.
This dealt with “phage medicines” which were prevalent in the former Soviet republics, with a database of phages held in Georgia.
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Hide AdBacteria have viruses called bacteriophages which destroy the bacterial coat thereby eliminating the bacterium.
The West preferred to use antibiotics to which we now know bacteria can develop immunity.
“Big bugs have little bugs upon their backs to bite ’em and little bugs have littler bugs and so ad infinitum.”
Perhaps the sophisticated “West” should look back at the work done on phages and find out if this could be the saviour.
Lindsay Craig
Colinton Mains Green
Edinburgh