I had exactly the same thought.

This is so big of a design flaw, I wonder if it’s not accepted as a way to sell more…

Subnautica is DRM free on steam? Nice! I wanted to give it to try to my father, but he doesn’t want a steam account.

If I’m not mistaken Guyana already have deals with both Chinese and US (Exxon? Can’t remember) oil companies for petrol extraction.

So the US could just defend their interest.

But I think leaving it up to Brazil would be much smarter.

Long story short: bacteriophage are extremely difficult to fit in the current legal/regulatory framework of the medical/pharma world/system.

Bacteriophage are not stable compounds such as chemical molecules (antibiotics, etc…). They evolve and change, adapting to bacterial evolution (or just spontaneously because we’re talking about organisms, who sometimes just changes). It may be an advantage from a efficacity point of view, buts it’s a big no-no from a regulation point of view.

This makes is harder to have real trials (even if things progress slowly).

Then you have all the biological questions about injecting live virus in an patient and the risk of immune response.

Then you have the complexity of both producing phages in a stable manner (remember: these fuckers have a tendcy to “evolve” on their own) as well as shipping them (require refrigeration all the way, contrary to antibiotic pills).

Source: bacteriophage were the subject of my master thesis, even if it was a while ago.

Yes, the comment you answered to doesn’t make any sense.

Main Russian grains clients: Egypt, Turkey, Sudan Nigeria

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/rus

However they might have European companies as intermediary or buy/sell activities.

Edit: Ah not sure about this source, I’ll try to find another one.