The Virus That Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections than currently die from cancer.
Discovered 100 years ago, bacteriophages-viruses that eat bacteria-might provide an answer. But phage therapy has only been approved for use on humans in the former Soviet Union. Motherboard travels to Georgia to meet the doctors using phage therapy today, and meets with the American scientists trying to normalize phage therapy in the United States.
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[@fleetSRT]

Hope Mark gets completely cured.

[@fleetSRT]

@UntitledYT Hater 3:56

[@doggowazhere7016]

that video of mark was from three years ago

[@p1nkfreud]

I don’t think Netherton is completely curable, just treatable…He will need lifelong phage treatment

[@ChromaticVanity]

I've been saying this for soooo long, fight poison with poison so to speak, or bug with bug. If infected by by bug, use a different bug, that is curable, to kill the other bug

[@airnhere.]

Lol stfu

[@williamcomyn5948]

Ye what is this man on about. Pretty obvious solution.

[@williamcomyn5948]

Just hard to do

[@ChromaticVanity]

@@williamcomyn5948 it is, it actually is. Cuz reengineering a virus gets complicated but we just need more minds to be able to correlate appropriate and specific genetic sequencing to combat or even regulate harmful versions or strains. But our bodies already use "good" bacteria to fight other "bad" bacteria like in our digestive tracts, so it's not unheard of

[@ChromaticVanity]

@@williamcomyn5948 I forget the person's name but he got a Nobel for treating (and I think curing) patients with syphilis by giving them malaria. And then he treated and cured the malaria

[@Samyak]

Omg that was so informative 🙏

[@onuuk]

New alternative hand-desanitazing stations.

[@wannisar]

After the burst of bact cells from phages attrack, intracellular toxins could also give adverse immune responses. Plus antibiotic resistance used to be elderly and hospitalised patients concerns. Hopefully, more research is done as aging population grows.

[@orhanmekic9292]

This 8-10 years wait before a lifesaving drug can come out sounds like a problem that needs to be fixed somehow, it is just a long time to wait, especially if one is dying.

[@lucaliberati5807]

Old ,very old powerful method for new and old diseases .It is time to go ahead with it, for concerns of banksters this method was stopped in the past !

[@leanderbarreto6523]

Reupload?

[@kingslots3449]

I've done this

[@Witchofthewoods.]

New alternatives...now this is going to be amazing.

[@NeroGamingX]

It's actually older than antibiotics.

[@garrystone561]

The video shows a bacteriophage "walking"on a surface. I had believed that the "legs" of these phages performed only an attachment function to a cell membrane. Is this animation accurate?

[@ankushkumar7886]

its time to change resistance

[@angelcs6244]

Creepy but interesting

[@MiltondBixler]

Watching someone keep half the World's future medicine in an old refrigerator gives me anxiety.

[@codysmith605]

concerns about intellectual property rights holding up medical advancement for 90 years

[@codysmith605]

This can be attributed to the american medical system if you want this kind of treatment go to russia to a dingy old soviet era hospital.😅

[@Tetrinal]

GO BACTERIO PHAGES

[@justplayinggames990]

I just came here after watching kurzgesagt

[@EvilBandeez]

Nice, another video about us.

[@internationalmemer69]

Bacteria:i will destroy you and everything else Phages:in your dreams

[@follielafemme]

Can they be used against other viruses?

[@Tetrinal]

No they can only bind to and infect bacteria

[@Tetrinal]

But there are viruses that can infect other viruses

[@Cursedyoshiexe]

@@Tetrinal Nope, they infact do kill viruses, they are the smallest virus to ever be alive on earth

[@kostaborojevic498]

@@Cursedyoshiexe You are probably referring to virophages...

[@adhd_with_pennies4867]

NO WONDER MY DOCTOR SAID DRINK WATER BECAUSE IT CONTAINS PHAGE

[@josephrodriguez2471]

Omg ombama

[@origamiandcats6873]

But the lysin doesn't evolve independently without the phage.

[@kostaborojevic498]

I think this is so stupid, they should just use the phages. Bacteria will get resistent to lysin.

[@thecakeisalie1885]

I wanna live as a phage or a neutrophil and die and then I still remember my pass life and now I'm a macrophage

[@obiwantzcanolisandmomgarde8490]

There are 6 new antibiotics not used because the expense They have been developed But are held back due in over use of antibiotics New drugs are not available until deemed necessary

[@p1nkfreud]

The new antibiotics that have not been marketed, do not have increased efficacy on superbugs, so they are dead in the water

[@parthpandya7077]

Capiatalist nations won't let in full steam

[@winniekavali3706]

Today's a blessed day for me" finally tested negative again for the genital warts thanks so much Dr.ademise on youtube

[@MarksmanSpecialist]

can u imagine a pandemic worse than coronavirus, super coronavirus resistant to antibiotic or vaccine

[@Cursedyoshiexe]

Phage : oooOooo this looks like alot of space to make my babies

[@shrodingerscat8940]

Corona is a virus so it's already resistant to antibiotic

[@kaitlinella4201]

Good. I wait for love from you 💝💖

[@guesty6128]

1:35 OBAMA

[@shrodingerscat8940]

Dad is that u?

[@guesty6128]

@@shrodingerscat8940 yes son

[@shrodingerscat8940]

@@guesty6128 it's been 20 years u still haven't returned with milk

[@reym7140]

1

[@nl5455]

2nd

[@Witchofthewoods.]

Nope...you're actually third 👀

[@swapswapped]

It's a bacteria not a virus

[@shrodingerscat8940]

It's a virus that kills bacteria.