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New Study Finds A Virus That Breaks The Rules Of Viral Infection : Goats and Soda : NPR - 8 views

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shared by Casey Finnerty on 02 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • I don't think anything else in nature moves this way."
  • Poof! The cell is infected. That's all it takes. One ball, sticking to one cell.
  • "The fifth ball seems to be optional," says Jason Ladner, a genomicist at USAMRIID, who helped discover the virus. Getting the fifth one could control how dangerous the virus is, he says.
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  • Then to get infected with the virus, a mosquito needs to catch at least four different colored balls
  • The study is part of a larger project aimed at figuring out what viruses, in addition to Zika and yellow fever, could be lurking inside mosquitoes and possibly waiting to spill over into people.
  • "We're trying to make sure that we're not blindsided when the next virus comes around,"
  • Casey Finnerty on 02 Sep 16
     
    "I don't think anything else in nature moves this way."" ARRRGHGHGHH!
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