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The World's Largest Really Small Thing

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. Re:Dupe of yesterday's story by flewp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't mind dupes. What I hate is all the duplicate posts telling us it's a dupe.

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