It was all the rage in the 1920's. Bacterial infections were controlled by treating patients with massive amounts of bacteriophage—small viruses that killed the bacteria. The idea was promoted by Félix d'Hérelle, a Canadian working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.Today bacteriophage therapy is rare but it might be making a comeback. Kurt Kleiner writes about it in The Toronto Star [The new age of the phage?].
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