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He neutralised his stomach acids to keep the V. cholerae alive, actually. They didn't pass through him without incident, every account of this story I can find
by skyyler 7y ago
He neutralised his stomach acids to keep the V. cholerae alive, actually.
They didn't pass through him without incident, every account of this story I can find notes that he did get sick. The modern perspective of the story seems to be that he had an immunity from previously having dealt with cholera.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoThe story I heard was that Cholera automatically stops reproducing if its population gets high enough, and that keeping the cholera alive prevented it from spreading.