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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)."

2 of 28 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.