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How A 100-Year-Old Treatment Could Help Save Us From Superbugs

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Confronting Superbugs: The Potential of Phage Therapy

This chapter shares a poignant narrative of a wife's desperate quest to save her husband from a superbug infection through phage therapy. It explores the mechanics of bacteriophages and contrasts the historical applications of phage therapy in the Soviet Union with its current experimental status in the West.

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