a might be able to reverse the trend bacteria phages are plentiful in the environment and kill bacteria by penetrating the outside of their cells getting inside and making them explode they have long been cultivated in eastern europe as an alternative to antibiotics tyria phage cocktails can be bought today in pharmacies in countries like a ga in the caucasus elsewhere belgium has started to offer phase treatments are there not widely available in the e.u. which me some patients have to travel abroad for treatment 10 you'd need ever cannot remember when she was last pain free antibiotics stopped working against her skin disease which she contract it 30 years ago so she found a different treatment bacteriophages but because they're only allowed in special cases in the netherlands she had to travel to tbilisi georgia and spent thousands of euros of her savings to buy them. and i start to go to georgia i was extremely