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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)."

6 of 28 comments (clear)

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

    It's a dupe. Original here.

    1. Re:Dupe of yesterday's story by mythr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh yeah? What I really hate is all the duplicate posts telling us about the duplicate posts telling us it's a dupe.

  2. RUN FOR THE HILLS! by Froze · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh My God, worlds largest virus is duplicating! At this rate we will all be taken over by rampant duplicate posts^H^H^H^H^H virus' before you know it.

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    -- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
  3. Ready for this one? by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No....Tony Blair's the dupe.

  4. Nice try by Sabbath.sCm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not the fastest dupe in the world, but it was a nice try nevertheless.

  5. New topic area: Dupes by Bourbon+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they should start a new topic area, maybe with a copying machine for an icon. Then put all of timothy's posts in there from now on. Maybe an annual awards ceremony each year (The Slashy Awards) and Most Dupes could be a catagory.