Sewage Saved This Man's Life. Someday It Could Save Yours.

When Thomas Patterson woke up from a two-month coma in March 2016, he learned two things he couldn’t believe: Donald Trump was soon to become the Republican nominee for president, and his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, had saved him from dying of an antibiotic-resistant superbug by injecting him with viruses harvested from sewage. It took a lot of convincing for him to accept these weren’t just more hallucinations. Patterson and Strathdee met while serving on a National Institutes of Health grant review panel almost 16 years ago. Strathdee doesn’t usually find review panels a riveting experience, but when she caught Patterson’s eye, they both realized there might be something more to this one. Married in 2004, they work together in the field of HIV/AIDS research at the University of California, San Diego ― Patterson as a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, and Strathdee as an infectious disease epidemiologist and head of the Global Health Center Institute. They’re also avid travelers who have visited more than 50 countries. They added Egypt to their list in November 2015 and found themselves thrust into another global health crisis. But this time, Patterson was the patient, and his case could prove to be a medical turning point. On Nov. 28, 2015, Patterson started having terrible stomach pain and running a fever. Originally the couple thought he had food poisoning. They headed to a clinic in Luxor, Egypt, where doctors diagnosed him...
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