The Virus That Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs

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Fascinating...."old"techniques being restarted because the "new" stuff is not working any longer...Scary how the one scientist said that by 2050 more people will die from antibiotic resistant viruses than from cancer!
 
This is nothing new. Its just that there is little money to made off so it was made to disappear. Many in former USSR still use it. State University of Georgia (country) has a dept dedicated to creating the library of bacteriophages. When Russia attacked them, some American tried to buy it or collaborate with them but they couldn't agree financially (of course).

I know a few who go to this lab to get the treatment. It is not the cheapest option (for a foreigner) but it is much better than the boatload of medications you have to pop in, if it works. Now that we are out of antibiotics due to their indiscriminate use, these guys are getting a renewed interest from the industry.
 
I would have liked to seen the manufacturing process used to make the Enko Bacteriophages.

I've been to China to inspect facilities used to manufacture antibiotics. No idea how they manufacture phages. It's difficult enough to manufactures sterile products. And when it says sterile, we're not worrying about viruses. So, how to prevent viral contamination of the phages. In other words, how to only get the good viruses and eliminate the bad ones when injecting into a person. I assume there are a lot of tox studies. (Animal studies) they didn't talk about.
 
Originally Posted by JLTD
Fascinating...."old"techniques being restarted because the "new" stuff is not working any longer...Scary how the one scientist said that by 2050 more people will die from antibiotic resistant viruses than from cancer!

The Plague apparently is making a resurgence I read, luckily we have anti-biotics now but what happens if they stop working. Scary thought considering it killed a lot of people in Europe.
 
Having seen that guy with the skin problems, I have a reoccurring skin issue that hasn't gotten better after multiple specialist and dermatologist visits and various creams and medications.
I would try this if it were locally available because the condition and where it is can be quite irritating.
 
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At some point, we need to get away from the basic thought that it needs to make money for something to be use.

If we do not do things because it is the right thing to do for all of us, mother nature will just wipe us because of our own stupidity.
 
Originally Posted by LazyDog
At some point, we need to get away from the basic thought that it needs to make money for something to be use.


It does make money. It just doesn't make as much money as getting the government to create an artificial market for you and keep out competitors with regulatory barriers. My guess is the FDA would load this up with so much regulation that it would just make no economic sense in America.

There was an article a few years ago about an American lady who had an antibiotic-resistant infection, the US doctors basically said there was nothing they could do and she was going to die, so she flew to Eastern Europe, got one of these phage therapies, and it cleared up pretty quickly.
 
Originally Posted by Brons2
We are barely staying a half step ahead of the bugs.

I think part of the problem is like the guy mentions where he says it takes 10 years to get anything approved. That's far too long.

Originally Posted by zorobabel
Thanks for posting this Stevie.

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Originally Posted by StevieC
I think part of the problem is like the guy mentions where he says it takes 10 years to get anything approved. That's far too long.


Seriously, the FDA have probably killed more people than Stalin by delaying the release of life-saving treatments. Probably not as many as Mao, though.

And it's the reason innovation is so sluggish in the medical field. Regulations may have been well-intended, but they're basically saying that it's better to not save the lives of 10,000,000 people than to kill ten.
 
Originally Posted by StevieC
Originally Posted by Brons2
We are barely staying a half step ahead of the bugs.

I think part of the problem is like the guy mentions where he says it takes 10 years to get anything approved. That's far too long.

Originally Posted by zorobabel
Thanks for posting this Stevie.

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8-10 years is fast. Took my company 15 years to get approval. And we had fast-track status. EMA is no push over, either. They are just as tough as FDA.
 
One one hand I get it because every second mid-day commercial up here seems to be some drug that caused a problem and some lawyer wanting to hear from you about it, but at the same time 10 years is ridiculous and 15 even more so.
 
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