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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by jdietrich on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:49AM (#19876390)
>They wrote "helped prolong the patients life" in some paragraphs. That kept making me think that in the end the patient did die because of the infection but it just took longer.

The patient is alive and well, but her underlying illness (cystic fibrosis) is life-limiting; most CF patients die before the age of fifty and this treatment won't significantly change that life expectancy.

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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by Insanity on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:56AM (#19876406)
Ah that explains :) Thanks!
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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by DiseasedBadger on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:21AM (#19877940)
Are you sure you didn't mean

"Ah that explains :("

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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by Insanity on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:26AM (#19877998)
Pretty sure that was a reply to me instead of the current parent. Yes, :( would have been more appropriate. I did not really think that much about the smiley, and did not use it as a reflection of the fact but more as a reflection on finding out the gap in my thinking.
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