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Did you stop reading there, by chance?
by jen_h 7y ago
Did you stop reading there, by chance?
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- throwaway5752 7y agoShame on whoever downvoted you. The full last 5 paragraphs are devoted to bacteriophages, which are what ultimately saved the author's husband. The author is "Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics" at UCSD (https://profiles.ucsd.edu/steffanie.strathdee https://profiles.ucsd.edu/steffanie.strathdee) It closes on "The possibility of living in a post-antibiotic era where simple surgeries or scrapes could lead to an infection that requires limb amputation or results in death means we need to improve AMR surveillance, diagnosis and treatment. This includes antibiotics, but should also include phage therapy. We can’t afford to bury a promising alternative to antibiotics for another hundred years." She is absolutely pushing phage research. Not exclusive to any alternatives, but that is basically the point of the article.