A virus changes the whole world. It has claimed millions of lives. But viruses are not just
destroyers or causes of diseases. They can also become our allies and help us fend off other
dangerous germs. These are the multi-resistant bacteria that are increasingly threatening us
and against which our best weapons antibiotics are increasingly failing. There are viruses
that specifically kill bacteria - only bacteria. That is what we are talking about here. They
have been known for over 100 years and have been almost forgotten about. But now with the
increase in multidrug-resistant bacteria these viruses are remembered. They have their own
name bacteriophages or phages meaning the bacteria eaters. The dangerous bacteria threaten
not least the corona patients in the intensive care units but all of us not only in hospitals
also in the case of injuries in our waters in animal husbandry. Phages are everywhere and are
harmless. Here is described what they could do in our health system - and what they couldn't.
The therapeutic effort is enormous is personalized medicine and may only be a bridge until we
discover new antibiotics - and then the two will be needed together. The book is easy to
understand as in a lecture for laypeople students doctors and patients as in a lecture with
many pictures. However there is also an appeal to readers and authorities that we need more
research and that the legal requirements make this difficult even hinder progress. Viruses for
cure are based on real scientific evidence not belonging to complementary medicine.
SARS-Corona Virus-2 has shown that we can accelerate more than ever before. It must be done
quickly so that we can avoid an antibiotic crisis as the next disaster.
