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Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington, New Zealand. [1] [2] By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and Australia, [3] and variants became very common worldwide in the early 1990s.
Medusavirus is a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus first isolated from a Japanese hot spring in 2019. [1] It notably encodes all five types of histones — H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 — which are involved in DNA packaging in eukaryotes, raising the possibility that they may have been involved in the origin of eukaryotes. [1]
The virus itself is extremely virulent, infecting its victims' cells and causing seizures while drying up the body, turning the infected into a solid, stone-like corpse. While perceived as a terrible malady by the world, in reality the Medusa virus is not a virus at all, being a shapeless presence brought to Earth from outer space.
Like the mythical monster Medusa, a newfound giant virus turns its host to "stone." But, luckily for us, its hosts are amoebas.Now called Medusavirus for its seemingly mythical powers, the strange ...
The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko . Popularized by Japanese ...
A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found. Cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, is one of nine herpes viruses that most ...
Plum pox, also known as sharka, is the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus.The disease is caused by the plum pox virus (PPV), and the different strains may infect a variety of stone fruit species including peaches, apricots, plums, nectarine, almonds, and sweet and tart cherries.
The Alliance's weapon is a computer virus ("comp plague") secretly planted in Draka military computers by spies; the Draka's is a biological virus called the Stone Dogs that causes infected personnel to go insane. Yolande discovers Marya, who has contacted the OSS, planting the comp-plague and allows her to escape with knowledge of the Stone Dogs.