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The reporter also called cholera a virus. You can't expect too much from science reporting in mainstream newspapers.
by mrob 9y ago
The reporter also called cholera a virus. You can't expect too much from science reporting in mainstream newspapers.
- bhickey 9y agoThe writer is mistaken, but cholera pathogenicity is caused by a virus. A temperate phage carries the genes for cholera toxin and infects cholera bacteria.
- danieltillett 9y agoThis is certainly true. Of course if they can't report science correctly what chance do they have on any other subject that I don't know about :)
- TeMPOraL 9y agoZero. Why people believe anything that's in mainstream news is beyond me.