Parvovirus

Even MOAR Endogenous Non-Retroviruses

sa smith | October 18, 2010

Now COMMON. COMMON. What is this nonsense? COMMON. ... How am I supposed to have a blog titled 'ERV', crowing on about how awesome and special endogenous retroviruses are, when scientists keep friggen unearthing endogenous NON-retroviruses. COMMON!! First there were Borna disease viruses. Then there were filoviruses. Then there were hepadnaviruses. And NOW, NOW there are endogenous parvoviruses: Discovery and Characterization of Mammalian Endogenous Parvoviruses OMGWTFBBQ?? Im sure almost all of you have heard the term 'parvo' or 'parvo virus'. Its a disease that ravages pets worldwide (the…

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