>It does make a lot of sense, says Peter Fineran, a microbial geneticist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. If the phage is >running out of hosts, it would try and limit its destruction, and sit quiet and wait for the host to re-establish growth.


This makes absolutely no sense to me. It is wrong on so many levels I can't think where to even begin a rebuttal. Viruses mutate so rapidly, and present so many variants to take advantage of changing conditions, that the idea of personifying this activity is inexplicable to me.


S


Skillman, NJ

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