From Russia With Love

Antibiotics are not working the way they once did, and there are more resistant diseases popping up all the time. For about 90 years now, doctors in Georgia (not the state) and other former USSR countries have been using a kind of virus called a phage to combat bacteria. The Western medical establishment has been reluctant to look into phages, but that may be changing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21799534