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probably important to note that corporations have basically halted research into new antibiotics since the 80s due to high cost

its possible to continue the arms race if a government wanted to

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Very excited for phage therapy to mature

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phage therapy

sorry that’s fake communist science, therefore we can’t invest large sums of money into it

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the very first thing I thought when I learned what a bacteriophage was in the 6th grade I was like “wow that would be an amazing alternative to antibiotics” then “wow I’m a genius I’ll be rich” then I learned the Russians have been doing it for like a hundred years :deeper-sadness:

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Go Cuba go

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:xi-plz: but for antibiotics funding

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Weirdly it’s unprofitable to create drugs whose ideal case is to never be used and should only be a last resort

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