Lot to unpack in this. a) SOP in Russia and Eastern Europe for many decades, but legally almost impossible in US. https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel-phage-therapy-saves-patient-with-multidrug-resistant-bacterial-infection.aspx#.WQ4tp90n4uk.twitter …
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IIRC it was around before antibiotics, but antibiotics were more convenient and humans can't resist brute force solutions.
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Antibiotics are amazing. But phage therapy is, to 99.99% accuracy, *literally illegal*.
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Which is a huge shame, they could have been working on phage therapy in parallel for when antibiotic resistance rendered antibiotics useless
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Why is it illegal?
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Read the original story. They had to beg FDA for an "emergency investigational new drug application". Phages aren't drugs, is the thing.
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FDA has a very long, ultra-expensive process for approving drugs: specific, well-defined chemical compounds. Phages are viruses.
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Different bacteria are infected by different phages. They also co-evolve in an arms race; today's phages won't work on tomorrow's infection.
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Typical preparations will be a mix of mostly uncharacterized phages. FDA has no frame for this.
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