Grit daily
Phage One Voice Founder Chris Shaffer Cured His Deadly Superinfection
"Phage One Voice did not rise from a boardroom plan. It rose from a man staring down a superinfection that antibiotics could not stop, then returning with a story that sounds almost defiant: after more than two years of failed antibiotic treatment, Chris Shaffer says four months of phage therapy cleared the infection and gave him his life back. Now the founder wants that hard-won knowledge to reach people who still think their last option is another failing prescription."
USA today
Phage One Voice Champions Options Beyond Antibiotic Failure
"New nonprofit Phage One Voice says it aims to raise public awareness of phage therapy, support access pathways for patients with bacterial infections that do not respond to antibiotics, and build a large phage bank for treatment and research."
Forbes-georgia
"Georgia did more than save one patient. It helped turn a private survival story into a public mission to pull phage therapy out of academic and clinical-trial silos and into wider awareness, discussion, and access."
Phage One Voice in the News
Business insider
Phage One Voice Launches to Advance Life-Saving Phage Therapy
"A newly formed nonprofit led by patient advocates and scientists has launched with one of the world's largest phage libraries and a mission to bring bacteriophage therapy into wider use for patients whose bacterial infections have not responded to antibiotics."
Wall street times
Chris Shaffer’s Phage One Voice and the Antibiotic Resistance Fight
"The figure that should be running on tickers, but isn’t, comes from a paper published in The Lancet in September 2024: roughly 40 million people are projected to die from antimicrobial-resistant infections worldwide between now and 2050. Today, the count is around 1.3 million a year."Â
healthcare business today
"Chris Shaffer did not set out to become a public voice in health care. He was a longtime educator fighting to stay alive after a drug-resistant E. coli superinfection kept returning while antibiotics failed to clear it. Phage therapy, which uses viruses that attack bacteria, finally wiped out the infection after months of care and gave him a second life."