{"id":88213,"date":"2019-02-27T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/using-1-germ-to-fight-another-when-todays-antibiotics-fail"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:24:55","slug":"using-1-germ-to-fight-another-when-todays-antibiotics-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/using-1-germ-to-fight-another-when-todays-antibiotics-fail","title":{"rendered":"Using 1 germ to fight another when today\u2019s antibiotics fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mmlo7IyIxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa\u2019s lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment \u2014 deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really running out of options,\u201d said Balasa, who traveled from her Richmond, Virginia, home to Yale University for the last-resort treatment. \u201cI know it might not have an effect. But I am very hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitting one germ against another may sound radical, but it\u2019s a sign of a growing global crisis. Increasingly people are dying of infections that once were easy to treat because many common bugs have evolved to withstand multiple antibiotics. Some, dubbed \u201cnightmare bacteria,\u201d are untreatable. Now scientists are racing to find novel alternatives to traditional antibiotics, a hunt that is uncovering unusual ways to counter infection, in unusual places.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b4c7e8aace4d45bca6d4b2f6b2ee0ac0\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/b4c7e8aace4d45bca6d4b2f6b2ee0ac0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa\u2019s lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment \u2014 deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug. \u201cI\u2019m really running out of options,\u201d said Balasa, who traveled from her Richmond, Virginia, home [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}