A Good Virus Officially Named After Cork

CORK, Ireland, July 7 - The Cork Institute of Technology issued the following news:

When CIT PhD student, Colin Buttimer, was asked by his supervisor to gather soil samples from potato farms around West Cork to discover natural predators of the causative agent of potato diseases such as soft-rot and blackleg, he never guessed that he would discover a virus which kills bacteria (known as a bacteriophage) that was quite different from others in the scientific literature.

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