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Brain-Eating Amoeba Meets Its Match: Unusual Giant Virus Discovered in Austria


A new, unusual giant virus has been discovered at a wastewater treatment plant near Vienna. The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer of the University of Vienna's Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Scie

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