maximillian schmitz has an infection that doesn't respond to antibiotics and pathogens from his sinuses ended up in his intestinal tract all of them a 19 year old had to have an operation his doctors tried to treat him with antibiotics but they had no effect on the rod shaped bacteria. maximillian read up on them and discovered an alternative bacteria phages a bacteria phage or phage is a virus that infects a bacterial cell by injecting its d.n.a. or r.n.a. into it the bacterium is then forced to produce new faces until it explodes that releases more bacteria phages which attack other bacteria until they're all destroyed then with no more hosts the bacteria phages disappear but there's only one hitch. indoors in germany and unfortunately in much of the e.u. therapy with bacteria phages is not permitted doctors don't know about them and if you go to a pharmacy and ask about them they'll look at you strangely because they don't know about them either i had to go to eastern europe to find them in a pharmacy. a number of eastern european countries are leading in the use of phage therapy. th