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Re:FDA approves first US phage therapy trial (2019) by skyyler on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:33PM (#22164988)
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.

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Re:FDA approves first US phage therapy trial (2019) by jacobwilliamroy on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:17PM (#22165554)
The 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.
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