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The Soviets have been building the largest phages base for over 80 years [0] - when the West was flirting with antibiotics and overprescribing them, the Soviets
by nikolay 5y ago
The Soviets have been building the largest phages base for over 80 years [0] - when the West was flirting with antibiotics and overprescribing them, the Soviets were identifying bacteriophages against different types of bacteria collecting them from the sewers. Now, all this immense work got inherited by Georgia and they treat foreign patients from infections nobody else has success against!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliava_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliava_Institute