What Was The First Virus?

Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Art by Khail Kupsky
Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza

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References:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origins-of-viruses-14398218/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00523/full
https://www.ft.com/content/8009dad5-9665-4602-b61c-2a294f781568
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/endogenous-retroviruses/
https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/12704
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galen.shtml

The 99 Percent… of the Human Genome


http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/presentations/The-human-genome-and-what-we-do-with-it.pdf

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