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Phage therapy: How Canadian doctor used century-old medicine to save dying husband from ‘super bug’

In 2016, Steffanie Strathdee helplessly watched for nine months as her husband lay dying in a San Diego hospital, as a “super bug” attacked his body. When doctors revealed all hope of recovery was lost, the trained epidemiologist went digging for answers. Remarkably she came across phage therapy – a century-old medicine discovered by a French-Canadian doctor – which had all but been forgotten.

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