Using viruses to fight diseases might seem dangerous compared to current therapies, but viruses are already in use for therapeutic purposes on a large scale for

Using viruses to fight diseases might seem dangerous compared to current therapies, but viruses are already in use for therapeutic purposes on a large scale for almost 100 years. Most people here don't know about it, because it's in use since ~1920 in the sowjet union/russia/eastern europe and not in the west. (for example to fight bacteria, that is resistant to all antibiotics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy