What Was The First Virus?

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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3L_Kykl6w
https://elifesciences.org/articles/12704
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galen.shtml
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/issue127a/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/presentations/The-human-genome-and-what-we-do-with-it.pdf

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