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Letter: Letter

Published 8 August 1998

From Andrew Ashby

Our battle against bacteria may have backfired. This strikes a chord with H.
G. Wells’s War of the Worlds. But instead of Martians eliminating their
own bacteria and invading Earth, it’s us who seem to be eliminating our own
bacteria and planning to invade Mars.

Glasgow

Issue no. 2146 published 8 August 1998

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