It's July 2022, and there's much excitement in the newsroom at CNN. An astonishing new miracle cure is being announced. Steffanie Strathdee was gently cradling the hand of her husband Tom Patterson in the hospital. He was close to death from a bacterial infection contracted on a cruise to Egypt. Antibiotics had proved useless, when she dramatically decided to try something revolutionary. She contacted Texas A&M University, whom she knew had been working on the treatment of recalcitrant infections using viruses. The viruses that attack and destroy bacteria are bacte-riophages — phages in daily parlance, pronounced to rhyme with "Taj" in Taj Mahal. (It's from the Greek cpdyoq [fagos], to eat; but it is a term coined in French, so that's how it's customarily pronounced. Saying it to rhyme with "page" is an unwanted Anglicism.)
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