Bacteriophage: How A Forgotten Virus Can be An Asset to Combat Superbugs
What is the first word come to your mind after hearing the word ‘Virus’? Disease, infection, infectious, harmful, etc. right. What if tell you there are viruses that can cure our diseases. Haven’t heard before! But there does exist such viruses, which are friendly to humans. Just like good bacterias, there are good viruses. These bacterias are known as ‘Bacteriophages’ or ‘Phages’meaning bacteria eaters. These are good because ‘Bacteriophages’ are…
Superbugs: A Threat Of Global Annihilation
Imagine a world where a simple cut in the hand results in the death of a person. Sounds very unrealistic and fictitious right! However, our own world was like that once. Before Alexander Flemming discovered Penicillin, people used to die from a simple paper-cut, knee injury, throat problem anything which can lead to an infection. Simple because we didn’t have any arsenal which could fight with bacterias. Then the revolution…
