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Originally posted by jjjtir
How about getting more in touch with treatments from USSR/Russia and its former states?
Bacteriophage/Phage viruses is considered an acceptable, mainstream option in the East.
A recent news article about it appeared in Nature, saying Western researchers are getting interested in phages again.
One of the first scientists in the early stages of phage research had a lab exclusively for therapeutic purposes, very little research was done there. He had a few bumps in the road, but successfully treated many infections using solely phages.
The West finds it troublesome because each phage is only useful for a few strains at maximum, requiring the ID'ing of pathogen via culture of extracted body fluids, and tailoring a specific phage for treatment of that specific pathogen X.
[edit on 28-2-2010 by jjjtir]