Giant virus discovered in water
Giant virus discovered in water tower :A massive virus has been found lurking in a British water cooling tower. The virus lives in single-celled organisms called amoebae and may be able to infect humans.The virus is so large that at first researchers mistook it for bacteria. Most viruses can only be seen with electron microscopes but this one was spotted through a high quality optical microscope.
e.p.c. posted this at 10:15 GMT on 4-Apr-2003 . Archive Link