About twenty years ago, I saw a TV show about a therapy that was used in the Soviet Union to treat bacterial infections. They used viruses called bacteriophages to kill bacteria. The therapy was very inexpensive. In the show, they stated it would never come to the United States because it could not be patented.
Recently I was looking up information on the FDA when I decided to check up on this therapy. I learned that the FDA had approved using bacteriophage on food to kill bacteria, but stated they would never approve a medicine that could mutate. It seemed to me they were saying that it is safe to eat bacteriophage but not safe to take the same thing when it is called medicine.
Today people are dying from drug-resistant bacteria. When someone gets infected with drug-resistant bacteria, doctors must race to find an antibiotic that will kill the bacteria before the bacteria kills you. There are many bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics but one. It is just a matter of time before bacteria develop resistance to all antibiotics. This will kill a lot of people.
In this blog, I will try to make the general public aware of this problem. I will have articles on bacteriophage, bacterial infection like the recent TB outbreak in Florida, food recalls because of bacterial infection and other related articles.
My goal is to change laws and regulations to make it possible to get bacteriophage used as medication in the United States. I would like to find like-minded individuals to start a non-profit company for that purpose. The FDA is a political organization that is visited by drug companies everyday. To get them to change, the voters need to apply lot of pressure. This is why there needs to be voter education on this issue.
John Symons
Graduate Of University of Florida 1965
Worked managing restaurants and a produce company,
and worked for a small package delivery company
Presently retired.
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