Summary: - 68 year old male catches bacterial infection - Acinetobacter baumannii - on vacation in Egypt - Traditional antibiotics courses don't work - Wife

Summary: - 68 year old male catches bacterial infection - Acinetobacter baumannii - on vacation in Egypt - Traditional antibiotics courses don't work - Wife suggested trying bacteriophages - aka "phages" - which are baceteria-targeting viruses - Phages are not FDA approved, but can receive "compassionate-use authorization" — effectively an acknowledgment that nothing with an FDA license can save the patient’s life - 23,000 people a year die from antibiotic resistant bacterial infections and phages are not necessarily on the radar due to their own bio-diversity (single phage for a single bacterium vs mostly catch-all antibiotics) - The male patient was treated with phages, which worked, and lived