The therapy is likely to be very cheap by US standards but of course you have to travel to the clinic and try to make sure it's not a scam.
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yeah, that's the difficulty - i'm not sure how to broach traveling to georgia with the guy cuz 'a smart seeming guy online' said so
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when it potentially seems just like a weird scam etc
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The science is pretty well-understood, it definitely works...a lot of the time. It's not a magic bullet the way penicillin used to be.
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Idea is you find a virus that can infect and kill the bacteria that are killing you. They can't infect human cells bc they're too different.
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It has a good track record going back decades, it's just a lot harder to use and less reliable than antibiotics USED to be.
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But it's a completely different mechanism from antibiotic treatment so it works just as well on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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The wikipedia article isn't a bad place to start, for once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy … Anyway I hope some of this helps, good luck!
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definately, thanks pham one more thing though, you tweet here about it being anti-bacterial, but the guy has cancer
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so possibly I totally misread your first series of tweets, am totally barking up the wrong tree and this isn't relevant at all?
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Yeah, I don't think it will do any good. My mom didn't use phage therapy, I was just making a point about connections = treatment
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