2023-05-06 16:19:47
Benjamin Kunath is ill. No antibiotic will help against his infection. Finally he undergoes the almost forgotten phage therapy in Georgia. Is she the solution for him and a global problem?
We can help you,” Benjamin Kunath had been promised. “After all, we’re not in Germany here.” Kunath is sitting on the sofa bed in a hotel room in the center of Tbilisi, looking at the wall, a tear is running down his cheek. In Germany he is regarded as a hopeless case, as one for which medicine no longer knows what to do. Here in the Georgian capital, in a run-down hospital on the banks of the Kura, lies his last hope. In an almost forgotten therapy with little-known viruses. The phages .
Kunath’s story of woe begins on a summer night in July 2017. Shortly before five in the morning he is racing down a slope in Falkenstein, Saxony, his hometown. He’s on his way to the morning shift as a high-precision miller in a factory in the neighboring town. He’s been doing it this way for years, racing bikes are his big hobby. There was never one on the street. Until this day.
Complications begin after an operation
A man steps in front of his front door, doesn’t look at the street, at this time he thinks he’s alone. Kunath rings the bell, turns in, further to the left, then further until there is no more space. It’s too late to brake. He hits the man at 50 kilometers per hour, rolls over, his racing bike shoes tear the clipless pedals with him…
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