This treatment has always been popular / common in the (former) Soviet Union. Here is an article from 2014 on it: https://gizmodo.com/soviet-doctors-cured-infec

This treatment has always been popular / common in the (former) Soviet Union. Here is an article from 2014 on it: https://gizmodo.com/soviet-doctors-cured-infections-with-viruses-and-soon-1587311881 https://gizmodo.com/soviet-doctors-cured-infections-with-vir... Also interesting is that medicine was never a particularly well paying job in the Soviet Union. At best it would be comparable to a civil engineer today; very much respected, but certainly not earning what a software engineer (or US doctor) would.