Doctors using one germ to fight another when antibiotics fail
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa's lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment -- deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug. "I'm really running out of options," said Balasa, who travelled from her Richmond, Virginia, home to Yale University for the last-resort treatment. "I know it might not have an effect. But I am very hopeful." Pitting one germ against another may sound radical
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