On the evening of November 7, Steffanie sent a tweet asking for help because she was helping a woman of 25 years old to fight superbugs.
Steffanie is an associate of the global health science at the University of California, she is part of a growing group of scientists who are testing an experimental
treatment for superbug infections. The treatment is called phage theraphy and uses tiny viruses which have the ability to destroy the most strains of
drug-resistant bacteria.
The young woman who Steffanie is trying to help is called Mallory Smith, who has acquired the superbug infection during one of her many tasks at the hospital.
For a while the doctors thought they could control it but the bacteria kept fighting back. Mallory's father heard that Steffanie's husband managed to recover from
a superbug infection and decided to ask her help and in a week a bacteriophage that could kill the bacteria had been identified.
Every year in the USA, 2 million Americans encouter a superbug infection and 23 thousand of them die.
Experts warn that the day when all injuries will be lethal is not so far, by 2050 over 10 million people will die from superbug infections. There are no new
antibiotics and even if they were, the superbug will adapt within a year.

Bacteriophages are the best bacteria fighters on the planet, scientists estimate that there are more phages that any other organism in the world.
They work by injecting their DNA into bacteria cells, where they procreate, causing the bacteria to burst open and die. What's special about bacteriophages is that each
strain attacks only a type of bacteria. Phages were used in the USA between the 1920s and 1930s, but where antibiotics took off, doctors moved away from phage and
started using antibiotics. In the last century scientists restarted to use phage but they had a reputation of being unsafe, that's because of the reputation that
the had a hundred years ago but it still persist.
In 2015, Steffanie and her husband, Patterson, were in Egypt when he became really ill because he was infected by a type of superbug.
He was under care of some doctors but they couldn't do much, he was going to die if they didn't came up with something different so her wife started searching for
a possible cure. A few days later Patterson was given a phage cocktail and three days after he woke up from his coma.

Phage has some benefits over antibiotics, bacteriopaghes can be found everywhere on the planet, they attack only targeted bacteria and it can be done quickly.
For phage to be approved, scintists have to permorm clinical trials to learn how to use the theraphy.
Merril, and old scientist, helped with the cure of Patterson and he says that if we don't deal with antibiotic resistance in time, it will get worse.
He think one day pharmacies will be provided with phage and it will took only an hour to cure a superbug infection but researchers says that there is a lot of work
to be done before that can happen.

Since treating Patterson, other three people were has been threated using phage therapy and two of them appeat to be fine.
One of them thanks Steffanie for helping her husband survived, she also sayed that she wasn't aware of the antibiotics adaption problem.
A scientist called Schooley is educating medical groups to a better use of antibiotics and theraphy because until we have a full functional phage theraphy, we
must use antibiotics intelligently.