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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)."

3 of 28 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dupe of yesterday's story by rastachops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    =[ Slashdot really needs someone to check for dupes... or a script. This is just stupid.

  2. Hi timothy ... by belbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...have been seeing Michael lately? No? Thought as much ...

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  3. Jesus Efin Christ by Sandman1971 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know I'll probably lose karma points for this...
    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Not only is this a dupe, but the dupe appears on the front page, it's not even archived yet!!!! Don't the so-called 'editors' read the site??? What's worst is that these guys get paid for what they do! I ran an RPG newssite that posted more news than slashdot on any given day. Did we ever have any dupes? Nope. Why? Cause we read our own damn site!!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Dupes is probably the #1 complaint on slashdot, and no one seems to be doing a damn thing about it.

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