The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth

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What kills more living things than anything else? A bacteriophage is not a bacteria; it’s a virus that kills bacteria. As a virus, it walks the line between living and non-living. It kills trillions of bacteria every day. However, we are now looking at bacteriophages as something we can use for our own ends. Kurzgesagt explains bacteriophages to us.

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Phage therapy to fight superbugs is not FDA approved, so very few patients in the US have the treatment, and they must get a compassionate waiver to even try it. Read about one such patient -who happened to be married to an infectious-disease epidemiologist, in an article at Mother Jones.

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