Phage Therapy

[Guest guest]

I just downloaded and watched a BBC documentary on Phage Therapy - a

therapy discovered in the 30's and 40's specifically designed for

antibiotic resistant infections.

The documentary talks about how this therapy was developed in the

Soviet Union and more recently, sponsored by an American millionare

and now again, the researh has been split across oceans over patent

disputes.

Has anybody heard of this? The Phage are actually virus designed to

attack specific infection. Here is the blurb on the program I

watched.

BBC Horizon - The Virus that Cures

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VHS>XviD 720x576 647MB 49min

Channel: BBC2

Date: 1997

With the rise of MRSA and the so called " superbugs " , antibiotics

are becoming less and less effective against an increasing number

of bacteria. What was once an easily teatable infection could now be

potentially fatal. The solution to this crisis could be held by a

tiny research institute in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia who,

over the past 50 years, have taken a very different approach to

treating infection.

Cheers,

*S*