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> Phage therapy is a blind spot for Western medicine. It's a new category of drug

It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting.

"Western medicine" ignores phage therapy, because growing a bunch of mud in a bowl does not bring anyone 10000% cuts. Cultivating phages still requires labor and equipment, and can be quite profitable, just not 10000% profitable, — because pretty much anyone can do it.

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>It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting.

No it isn't.

Antibiotics aren't commercially valuable, which is a critical problem - drug companies have no interest in developing new antibiotics, because they won't see a return on their investment. This is one area of medicine where the problem isn't drug company profiteering, but the lack of profit.

https://www.idsociety.org/10x20/

Perhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible. Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.

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