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Throwback Thursday

Scientist Drinks Cholera Bacteria to Prove a Point!

One of the founders of modern hygiene became so convinced that cholera required the right combination of microbe, environment, and host conditions that he swallowed the organism himself to demonstrate that the bacterium alone wasn't sufficient.