{"id":3737,"date":"2016-08-27T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2016-08-27T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:05:00","slug":"new-study-finds-a-virus-that-breaks-the-rules-of-viral-infection-goats-and-soda-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/new-study-finds-a-virus-that-breaks-the-rules-of-viral-infection-goats-and-soda-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Finds A Virus That Breaks The Rules Of Viral Infection : Goats and Soda : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2016\/08\/25\/491261766\/new-virus-breaks-the-rules-of-infection\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/122139_web-70-17697a1f9dc78476bb18c22b634690f08f37a3a5-s800-c85.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Our intuitions about what defines &#8220;a living being&#8221; have clearly been far, far too conservative&#8230;-egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has found a mosquito virus that&#8217;s broken up into pieces. And the mosquito needs to catch several of the pieces to get an infection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most bizarre thing,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/science\/people\/edward.holmes.php\">Edward Holmes<\/a>, a virologist at the University of Sydney, who wasn&#8217;t involved in the study. It&#8217;s like the virus is dismembered, he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you compare it to the human body, it&#8217;s like a person would have their legs, trunk and arms all in different places,&#8221; Holmes says. &#8220;Then all the pieces come together in some way to work as one single virus. I don&#8217;t think anything else in nature moves this way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2016\/08\/25\/491261766\/new-virus-breaks-the-rules-of-infection\">New Study Finds A Virus That Breaks The Rules Of Viral Infection : Goats and Soda : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Our intuitions about what defines &#8220;a living being&#8221; have clearly been far, far too conservative&#8230;-egg] A team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has found a mosquito virus that&#8217;s broken up into pieces. And the mosquito needs to catch several of the pieces to get an infection. &#8220;It&#8217;s the most bizarre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}