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The World's Largest Really Small Thing

Posted by timothy on from the bacteria-envy dept.

nut writes "The Beeb has a story on the discovery of the world's largest virus. It is nearly the size of a bacterium and lives in amoebae commonly found in your air-conditioning system. It has been linked to pneumonia in people, but isn't known to cause disease itself. More reports here(1), here(2) and here(3)."

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  1. Dupe of yesterday's story by SteWhite · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a dupe. Original here.

  2. Not A Dupe by Stinson · · Score: 2, Informative

    The First article everyone thinks is the original (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/ 28/230236&mode=thread&tid=134), is about a very large fungus that grows in the woods.
    The second article that everyone thinks is the dupe (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/ 29/1647251&mode=thread&tid=134), is about a virus that grows in a water tower.
    They might be related items as they are talking about the largest of each species, they are NOT the same article.
    rtfa ('manual' replaced for 'article')

    1. Re:Not A Dupe by NicoNet · · Score: 2, Informative

      This article is a dupe of http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/2 8/1751226 though, this article and that article are both about the Mimivirus.