11. There are limitations to phage therapy . 12. Bruce Levin, a population biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, has reservations about phage therapy . 13. The first patient was healed of dysentery using phage therapy in August 1919 . Many more followed. 14. In the United States during the 1940s commercialization of phage therapy was undertaken by Eli Lilly and Company. 15. Brigham Young University is currently researching the use of phage therapy to treat American foulbrood in honeybees .. 16. The FDA's regulatory pathway for FluMist has been suggested as a possible precedent for phage therapy . 17. Phage therapy has many potential applications in human medicine as well as dentistry, veterinary science, and agriculture.18. Public awareness and education about phage therapy are generally limited to scientific or independent research rather than mainstream media. 19. Approval of phage therapy for use in humans has not been given in Western countries with a few exceptions. 20. The 1925 novel and 1926 Pulitzer prize winner " Arrowsmith " used phage therapy as a plot point.
