•1915 - Twort discovers phages.

 

•1916 -  d'Herelle names them “Bacteriophages” (a day

            before his daughter was born).

 

•1919 - d'Herelle conducts 1st experiment in Chickens.

 

•August 1919 – First human cured from dysentery.

 

•1926 - d'Herelle was nominated 10 times for Nobel Prize and it was clear

              that it is only a matter of time until he gets it.

 

•1927 – The Cholera death toll was reduced from

               60% to 8% in villages in India by adding phages to the   

               wells.

 

•1925 - 1937– Hundreds of people are cured from a variety of bacteria.

 

•1934 - d'Herelle moves to Georgia after being invited by  

              Stalin himself to establish a phage therapy institute with  

              his friend Prof. George Eliava. d'Herelle believes in the communist                 paradise with all his heart.

 

•1928 – the “9/11” of phage therapy:  Alexander Fleming discovers 

              penicillin, d'Herelle will never get a Nobel Prize.

 

•1937 - George Eliava falls in love with the wrong girl (Lavrenty Beria’s love);

             he and his wife are executed.

 

•1937 - D'Herelle ran for his life to Paris and never returned to Georgia. His 

              book is banned from distribution the USSR.

 

•1939 -  WWII. The age of antibiotics begins.

 

•1940s -  Eli Lilly decides to leave phage therapy and concentrate on

                antibiotics.

 

•1949 - d'Herelle dies a forgotten man; phage therapy is abandoned in the                western world.

 

•1950s - Phage therapy is conducted in Eastern Europe,

                 mainly in Georgia and Poland.

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1960s - Félix d’Hérelle's name appeared on a list published by the Nobel

               Foundation of scientists who had been worthy of receiving the

               Nobel Prize but did not.

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1961 - Liz Taylor was treated with phages for staphylococcus pneumonia                    during the filming of 'Cleopatra' and her  life were saved. 
 

 

• NOW - The return of phage therpay? Are we in the NEW AGE of the

                PHAGE?