"Funding for phage therapy research and clinical trials is generally insufficient and difficult to obtain, since it is a lengthy and complex process to patent bacteriophage products."

It's all about money. It doesn't matter if it's pharmaceuticals, what kind of research is being funded or something else. It's all about money. It angers me. Maybe I'm being naive but I don't see how money is more important than treatment. I don't see how money is more important than developing new antibiotics or things we can replace antibiotics with. According to experts we're approaching a "post-antibiotic era" where we, if we keep this up, might not be able to treat diseases caused by bacterial infections that we'd normally treat with antibiotics (pneumonia, tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, sepsis etc) due to the fact that the bacteria will be resistant to the antibiotics available.

During a bacteriology lecture earlier this week our professor told us that in order to avoid the "post-antibiotic era" we'd need to develop about one new antibiotic per year. Well, we're a bit behind since it's been about 30 years since the last antibiotic was developed (excluding the different varieties of already existing antibiotics).

Money. Greed preventing research and new medical breakthroughs saddens me.

Rant over.