and they are called bacteriophage and they were discovered over hundred years ago actually felix durell, the doctor who discovered them found them in people who were sick with dysentery and he realized that he could actuallyl kill all of these dysentery causing bacteria with these viruses and he said, this could be a drug. so, actually incredibly, peoplec forget this, but in the 1920s you could buy powder within these viruses in it in paris, i mean, it was being mass-produced and it was quite popular. antibiotics came on scene and they seemed more reliable, more kind of a tractable because they are just chemicals and not almost lifelike viruses are and so there was a shift. really, the only place where this kind of approach called phage therapy was continued to be used was in the soviet union, so world war ii, stalin soldiers are getting wounded on the battlefront and suffering infections. they are being treated with phage therapy. they're getting viruses on their wounds and in some cases it'sme working. since the fall of the soviet union, some of those people came to the united states