Prior to their discovery in 1917, phages had been linked to miracle waters – rivers in India and other places with the power to cure diseases from leprosy to cholera. Only later did scientists, examining a naturally occurring treatment for dysentery, discover these “cures” were phages, feasting on and eradicating the disease-causing bacteria.
-Michael Palmer
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