mentioned there are these viruses that infect bacteria, it was discovered over 100 years ago, felix durell, the doctor who discovered them found them in people sick with dysentery and realized he could kill this and terry causing bacteria with the viruses and he said this could be a drug. people forget this but in the 1920s you could buy powder with these viruses, it was being mass-produced and quite popular. antibiotics came on the scene and seemed more reliable and tractable, almost alive like viruses so there was a shift, anyplace where this kind of approach which continued to be used within the soviet union. world war ii, soldiers getting wounded on the battlefront and suffering infections being treated with phage therapy. in some cases it is working. since the fall of the soviet union some of those people came to the united states and have been trying to bring phage therapy in european medicine and it has been slow, you can't be 100% sure the viruses are going to kill the bacteria you want to cure but there is progress, major trials in terms of treating people with infections and burn