If we’ve learned anything in the past couple of years, it’s that viruses can not be ignored and that they have the potential to wreak havoc on the entire planet and take out millions of people around the world.

But in the past 20 years, giant viruses have been discovered and they contain so much genetic material that they might actually be alive…and that’s a scary thought.

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