stackyFACTSEven microscopic agents of lethal human misery have to deal with their own horrible pandemics. Vibriophages are specialized viruses that specifically hunt and destroy Vibrio cholerae bacteria in contaminated water supplies, meaning the plague causing your dysentery is simultaneously dying of a plague itself.
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