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2024

Superbug crisis could get worse, killing nearly 40 million people by 2050, study estimates

September 20​, 2024 | CNN Health

Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic?

July 21, 2024 | CDC

 CDC Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report provides crucial update on the growing burden of AMR in the U.S.

July 16, 2024 | CDC

The Promise of Bacteriophage Therapy to Fight Drug-Resistant Superbugs

​June 27​, 2024 | MedPage Today​​

Superbugs Pose a Deadly Threat to Cystic Fibrosis Patients​

​May 14​, 2024 | MedPage Today​​

Phage therapy: Researchers sharpen another arrow in the quiver against antibiotic resistance​​

​Feb 20​, 2024 | StatNews

A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria

​Feb 14​, 2024 | WIRED

The Future Congress opens with a full house.

Jan 14, 2024 | El Mercurio

2023

Wife relies on the natural enemy of bacteria to rescue her husband from a life-threatening disease

Dec 14, 2023 | Upworthy

No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life

Dec 06, 2023 | CNN Health

How naturally occurring viruses could help treat superbug infections (watch full episode)

Dec 05, 2023 | CNN

CDC Director: Threat of respiratory illnesses underway

Dec 04, 2023 | CNN

CNN's 'Vital Signs' explores the prospects of phage therapy to treat drug-resistant superbugs

Nov 30, 2023 | PR Newswire

Jumbo phages are active against extensively-drug-resistant eyedrop-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

May 8, 2023 | bioRxiv

Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine

“Phage therapy” aims to use viruses to cure bacterial infections

May 3, 2023 | The Economist

Antimicrobial Resistance: Examining an Emerging Public Health Threat

Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing - April 28, 2023

Phage Against the Routine: Resistant Acinetobacter

Superbugs & You - February 28, 2023

Babbage: How to battle superbugs with viruses

Babbage from The Economist - May 17, 2023

In the War on Bacteria, It's Time to Call in the Phages

WIRED - April 3, 2023

2022

Best Life: Bacteria eating virus

Action News 5 - December 20, 2022

The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics - November 11, 2022

Dr. Saima Aslam on: Phage Hunt

Febrile Podcast - August 29, 2022

2021

Can viruses save lives?

Biomedical Science Journal for Teens - April 2021

2020

Superbug vs. Superphage A Review of The Perfect Predator and an Interview with Dr. Chip Schooley

When a Virus Is the Cure

The New Yorker, Nicola Twilley - December 14, 2020

Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us

Scientific American, David Pride - December 2020

Viruses, lords of creation-exploring the little-known viral universe

Babbage Podcast, The Economist - August 26, 2020

Bacteria-eating viruses could provide a route to stability in cystic fibrosis

Nature Outlook - July 26, 2020

2019

Viral 'Smart Bombs' Are Becoming Weapons Against Superbugs

Bloomberg Businessweek- November 18, 2019

Steffanie Strathdee: 'Phages have evolved to become perfect predators of bacteria'

THE GUARDIAN - ZOE CORBYN - JUNE 15, 2019

Genetically Modified Viruses Help Save A Patient With A 'Superbug' Infection

NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - ROB STEIN - MAY 8, 2019

Could Viruses Be 'The Perfect Predator' To Fight Superbugs?

WBUR HERE AND NOW - MARCH 6, 2019

How to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs: Woman saves husband with phage therapy

TODAY - A. PAWLOWSKI - MARCH 1, 2019

2017

Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope

TIME MAGAZINE- ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN - DECEMBER 18, 2017

How Sewage Saved My Husband's Life from a Superbug

TEDXNASHVILLE - STEFFANIE STRATHDEE - PUBLISHED OCTOBER 17, 2017

He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren't Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.

MOTHER JONES - MARYN MCKENNA - MAY/JUNE 2018 ISSUE

Her Husband Was Dying From A Superbug. She Turned To Sewer Viruses Collected By The Navy.

BUZZFEED - AZEEN GHORAYSHI - MAY 6, 2017

Sewage Saved This Man's Life. Someday It Could Save Yours.

HUFFPOST - LAUREN WEBER - MAY 11, 2017

Viruses save a man from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

THE GUARDIAN - LIZ SOCKETT - DECEMBER 24, 2017

A patient's legacy: Researchers work to make phage therapy less of a long shot

STAT NEWS - ERIC BOODMAN - NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Bacteriophage Therapy

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