I gather phage therapy was seen in Western bloc nations as akin to Lamarckian evolution, so even otherwise keen scientists tended to dismiss it. And of course,

I gather phage therapy was seen in Western bloc nations as akin to Lamarckian evolution, so even otherwise keen scientists tended to dismiss it. And of course, antibiotics work really well (until they don't.) I have no idea how widespread phage therapy was in the Soviet bloc nations. The Cold War distorted a lot of things.