Infectious inaccuracy

April 18, 1997

First the Today programme on Radio Four, now you. E. coli O157 may indeed be virulent but it is a bacterium, not a virus, and the O is a letter, not a zero.

DOUGLAS KELL Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales at Aberystwyth

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