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Phage therapy is still widely used in Russia, Georgia and Poland, but never took off elsewhere. \u201cThis is a virus, and people are afraid of viruses,\u201d says Mzia Kutateladze, who is the head of the scientific council at the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, which has been studying phages and using them to treat patients for nearly a century.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1.15348\">Phage therapy gets revitalized : Nature News &amp; Comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, patients behind the Iron Curtain were denied access to some of the best antibiotics developed in the West. To make do, the Soviet Union invested heavily in the use of bacteriophages \u2014 viruses that kill bacteria \u2014 to treat infections. 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