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		newsreview1 on Sept 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly ef... This science journalism isn't all that bad, actually. The article is clearly about Ivermectin, and never mentions "bacteria killed parasite" - Additionally, Ivermectin and other avermectins are macrocyclic lactones and are derived from the bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis. So even if teh article mentions bacteria... it's still not wrong.

minitech on Sept 12, 2019 [–]

It’s the way the article mentions bacteria that’s wrong. The wording and capitalization really do imply that ivermectin is a species of bacteria.

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