I didn’t click on the link because it’s that shitty Indian website that’s always wrong.
Sometimes it’s just not understanding what they’re translating, sometimes it’s just outright misinformation.
But just because they found an earlier form of a human virus in neanderthals doesn’t mean it was a human virus.
Not to mention, viruses aren’t just spontaneously created, they evolve from existing viruses.
You could trace any human virus back long before humans or other hominds.
Which brings up another point.
It should be “oldest known homind virus”.
Not all hominds are/were humans. It’s a rectangle/square thing.
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I’m thinking Jurassic Park with viruses. The title will be “The Oldest Killer” and the twist is that it’s the common cold, but it’s 40,000 years old.
The author of the Jurassic Park book, Michael Crichton, did that too in his book Andromeda Strain. Except instead of an old virus uncovered, the virus came from a piece of space rock. I think he had another virus related book, but I might be thinking of Prey, which was nanobots.
Aw shucks. Why you gotta take the virus out of its prison cells? Probation doesn’t work on these guys!