> In 1896 he published, through the Pasteur Institute, "L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera",[6] a paper in which he described the antibacterial activity of a then unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours. The same water, when boiled, does not have the same effect. On the other hand, well water is a good medium for this microbe, whether boiled or filtered." He suggested that it was responsible for limiting the spread of cholera. While many observers have considered this as evidence of early observations of bacteriophage activity, some of his later experiments raise doubts. Hankin subsequently suggested that the bactericidal action was through a "volatile" agent. He further conducted experiments where he showed that Ganga water heated in hermetically sealed containers retained their ability to kill bacterial cultures while open one on heating lost their potency. A 2011 commentator adds that Hankin's initial results suggest extremely high phage counts which seem improbable.[7] It was however not until twenty years later that phage activity was demonstrated without doubt by the experiments of FΓ©lix d'Herelle later described at the Pasteur Institute.[8][9][10] This observation on the water of the Ganges became quite famous, and even found mention in Mark Twain's More Tramps Abroad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hanbury_Hankin#Bacteriophages
https://www.bacteriophage.news/bacteriophages-an-introduction-to-phages/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4161/viru.25991
Meanwhile:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/ggetuv/the_ganga_water_hit_job_how_media_reports_tried/
I'm increasingly interested in microbiology, and I figure you guys don't get a lot of chances to share the cool stuff that's happening in your areas. Consider this an open invitation to nerd out :D
>She [Anna] loved going up in airplanes with stunt fliers β a reckless act in pre-World War I airplanes β and loved sudden fast turns and out-of-control loops. She loved to drive and was always speeding; when traffic was stalled, she often simply pulled into the opposite side of the road and proceeded, and she had a string of traffic tickets to prove it. Once she took a mechanicβs course and decided to take her Buick engine apart β but failed to put it back together.
>In her diary she wrote, βFrom my earliest memories, I was one of those who wanted to go places. When I couldnβt go, I would have my dreams about going. And, such wild dreams were seldom conceived by any other child.β
Source:
Barry, John M. βThe Race.β The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Penguin Books, 2009. 272. Print.
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"I feel like staphylocaca."
> In 1896 he published, through the Pasteur Institute, "L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera",[6] a paper in which he described the antibacterial activity of a then unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours. The same water, when boiled, does not have the same effect. On the other hand, well water is a good medium for this microbe, whether boiled or filtered." He suggested that it was responsible for limiting the spread of cholera. While many observers have considered this as evidence of early observations of bacteriophage activity, some of his later experiments raise doubts. Hankin subsequently suggested that the bactericidal action was through a "volatile" agent. He further conducted experiments where he showed that Ganga water heated in hermetically sealed containers retained their ability to kill bacterial cultures while open one on heating lost their potency. A 2011 commentator adds that Hankin's initial results suggest extremely high phage counts which seem improbable.[7] It was however not until twenty years later that phage activity was demonstrated without doubt by the experiments of FΓ©lix d'Herelle later described at the Pasteur Institute.[8][9][10] This observation on the water of the Ganges became quite famous, and even found mention in Mark Twain's More Tramps Abroad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hanbury_Hankin#Bacteriophages
https://www.bacteriophage.news/bacteriophages-an-introduction-to-phages/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4161/viru.25991
Meanwhile:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/ggetuv/the_ganga_water_hit_job_how_media_reports_tried/
