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Superbugs: Apocalypse … Now?

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How Fernando Is a Superbug Killer

When Fernando has a patient who's sick, infected with a superbug, what he's hoping is that someone in Melbourne will be carrying that specific phage. So, then he can bottle it up and use it for his patients. He doesn't just go looking for phages in our crap, but also in water that's all over the place. Once he gets that dirty water to see if there's any superbug killing phages inside it, basically he'll mix a dash of superbug with a sprinkling of dirty sewage water,. Put it on an eggar plate, butter, pink butter, boom. What do you see? Oh, gosh I guess I see, like

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