Welcome to the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club Friday March 29, 2024
Home Forums Images WikiNASIOC Products Store Modifications Upgrade Garage
NASIOC
Go Back   NASIOC > NASIOC Miscellaneous > Off-Topic

Welcome to NASIOC - The world's largest online community for Subaru enthusiasts!
Welcome to the NASIOC.com Subaru forum.

You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our community, free of charge, you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is free, fast and simple, so please join our community today!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.







* As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads. 
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-03-2009, 01:11 PM   #1
Bankie
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 37785
Join Date: Jun 2003
Chapter/Region: MWSOC
Location: Ohio
Vehicle:
2016 Mazda 3
White

Default It puts the lotion on it's skin.....so the healing can begin?

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...-03/next-phage

Excerpt from page 2

Quote:
When Brillon arrived for a follow-up appointment three weeks later, Wolcott entered the room with a dropper in one hand and a vial of liquid that looked suspiciously like pond water in the other. The liquid, it turned out, was Wolcott's "anything": a murky concoction filled with bacteria-eating viruses known as bacteriophages. Physicians in Eastern Europe, Wolcott had explained to Brillon earlier, have been using phages safely since the 1920s to treat conditions that defy conventional antibiotics, from strep and tuberculosis to infected sores like his. Even U.S. drug companies sold them until the early 1940s, when penicillin came along and proved easier to use, generally more effective and, in the end, more lucrative than phages. The viruses might not help, he admitted, but if they didn't hurt, what was the harm in trying?

Brillon didn't need much convincing. The Food and Drug Administration was another story. Since 1963, the agency has mandated a strict approval process for all medications sold in America. Phage therapy has yet to be subjected to it, so Wolcott had to petition his state regulatory board to allow him to administer it only to people who had exhausted all other options. Then, because you can't find phages in U.S. pharmacies, he had to trek all the way to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to get it. There it's sold over the counter like eyedrops. He bought, for $2 each, three clear glass bottles, each filled with a liquid containing hundreds of types of phages.

"That's it?" Brillon asked, after Wolcott dribbled a few drops of the yellowish liquid onto his wound. The stuff was painless. Nothing much happened over the first few days, and Brillon braced himself for another disappointment. But as the week passed, the sore began to fade to a healthier pink, and then a new island of healthy skin emerged, expanding steadily every day. Within three weeks, the wound was completely healed. "You'd better take pictures of this," Brillon told Wolcott, "or nobody is going to believe it."


Brillon's recovery was astonishing, but it wasn't a one-shot deal. Wolcott had also given the phage solution to 10 of his other worst-case patients, and many of them were showing similar results. If phages worked for them, Wolcott reasoned, couldn't they also work for the millions of patients in the U.S. living with infections resistant to antibiotics? His patients, he felt, were proof of it. The real question was whether he could convince the FDA.

As viruses go, phages are relatively benign. They're the most abundant naturally occurring organisms on Earth. They can be found virtually everywhere--in soil, drinking water, sewage. In fact, each one of us naturally has billions of them in our bodies. They prey only on bacteria, never human cells, they rarely spread from person to person, and, perhaps most important, bacteria have trouble becoming immune to them. As living organisms, phages are constantly changing and adapting in tandem with their host bacteria to kill them more effectively. Phage therapy could therefore eliminate the vicious cycle in which bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics, necessitating the development of new, even more powerful drugs, at which point the process begins all over again.
CN: Antibiotic-resistant infections can be killed with a bacteria-eating virus.
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads.
Bankie is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads.
Old 04-03-2009, 01:14 PM   #2
UberWilhelm
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 80937
Join Date: Feb 2005
Chapter/Region: NESIC
Location: Beep Beep Lettuce
Vehicle:
--

Default

poop. That is all.
UberWilhelm is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:14 PM   #3
edkwon
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 453
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: ***23567;***12373;***12356;***
Vehicle:
2020 Kia Telluride
2021 Porsche Taycan

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bankie View Post
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...-03/next-phage

Excerpt from page 2



CN: Antibiotic-resistant infections can be killed with a bacteria-eating virus.
ibbacteriophagesmutateintohumanphages
edkwon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:16 PM   #4
NewsPhotog
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 185008
Join Date: Jul 2008
Chapter/Region: MAIC
Location: Lancaster, PA | Washington, DC
Vehicle:
'08 WRX
OBP

Default

And the healing has begun.
NewsPhotog is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:20 PM   #5
BGPunk2001
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 46134
Join Date: Oct 2003
Chapter/Region: TXIC
Location: Ignoranimosity
Default

The hose damnit! THE HOSE!!!!
BGPunk2001 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:40 PM   #6
Reciprocity
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 1165
Join Date: Mar 2000
Default

I, for one, welcome our new bacterial overlords.
Reciprocity is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:44 PM   #7
Snoopy
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 700
Join Date: Jan 2000
Chapter/Region: MAIC
Location: BANNED!
Vehicle:
99 Impreza RS
Silverthorn Metallic

Default

Uh....you saying that natural dirty water can cure stuff? Sounds like George Carlin's "Germs" stand up routine. "Polio had no chance! We were tempered in liquid shyte! (swimming in the Hudson River)"
Snoopy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:46 PM   #8
Gilla-Machster
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 24740
Join Date: Sep 2002
Chapter/Region: TXIC
Vehicle:
Head donkey meat
distributor in USA

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snoopy View Post
Uh....you saying that natural dirty water can cure stuff? Sounds like George Carlin's "Germs" stand up routine. "Polio had no chance! We were tempered in liquid shyte! (swimming in the Hudson River)"
Just don't put it up your nose or else it'll eat yoar brains.
Gilla-Machster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2009, 01:48 PM   #9
Aprice40
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 79811
Join Date: Jan 2005
Chapter/Region: MAIC
Location: Baltimore, MD
Vehicle:
2002 WRX
WRB

Default

You couldn't pay me to put a phag in my body.... what kinda article is this!
Aprice40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
"It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again" RickDaTuner Off-Topic 9 04-26-2017 02:57 PM
It puts the lotion on the skin!!!!1 SBW Off-Topic 14 09-17-2007 05:26 PM
For alacrity024 who's been hiding under a rock...it rubs the lotion on its skin! Sean Off-Topic 30 02-06-2006 02:48 AM
It rubs the lotion on its skin... beachbum Off-Topic 36 01-08-2005 12:27 AM
It rubs the lotion on the skin FreeBMW Off-Topic 14 05-10-2004 09:35 AM

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:02 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Powered by Searchlight © 2024 Axivo Inc.
Copyright ©1999 - 2019, North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club, Inc.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission
Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.