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Bill
 Dec 2, 07 - 8:55 PM |
Superbugs, phage therapy and bull****!
Hi All: I found the November issue of the Contamination Control Newsletter of considerable interest. As a microbiologist with knowledge of phage therapy and the academics of bull**** ( please see http://bull****citynorth.blogspot.com ), I noted that CDC "guidelines do not rule out the use of organs from donors identified as high risk. The CDC recognizes .... that a patient's risk of dying without a transplant is often much higher than the possible risk of acquiring a disease." (From article entitled Four Transplant Patients Contact HIV From Donor Organs) --- Interesting, when we all know that FDA and other Western public health regulatory agencies won't use the same reasoning for phage therapy. The other thing worth noting is that organ transplants are of necessity small batches of medical products tailor-made for one or a small group of patients. Again one of the arguments often spouted against phage therapy is that regulatory agencies don't like small batches of tailor-made drugs or therapeutic products. Clearly such arguments are arbitrary, capricious bull**** or perhaps ueberbull**** if made by experts! It might be worthy to note the following: "staph infections, ... cause an estimated 95,000 severe illnesses annually in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently calculated that 19,000 Americans are dying of staph infections each year, about 2,000 more than die of AIDS" (from SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News, November 30, 2007) Humbug! I rest my case! |
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James
Mar 4th, 2008 - 9:42 PM |
Re: Superbugs, phage therapy and bull****!
I am in my senior year of high school and am studying the control and transmission of E. coli 0157:H7. I have searched but have been unable to find information on the FDA website about the prohibited use of phages. If you have the link, can I please have it. |
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Ferrall
Mar 6th, 2008 - 2:09 PM |
Question
While im no scientist, I do enjoy pondering questions, and phages have captured my current imagination. My question is, could phage be developed to help with auto-immune disorders? Auto-immune disorders seem to be your own bodies immune system attacking your body (probably because everyone thinks they need a "super immune system", where I contend its more about a balanced immune system). It seems that phage have a similar job, they act counter to virus' and help to bring balance. So would it be feasible to think that a phage could be developed to help with auto-immune disorders, or are there just too many inherit differences? |
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