Viruses Catch Viruses

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Science has found a virus suffering an infection from a smaller virus. The sick virus was called the giant mimivirus. Mimiviruses are so big they can be seen by regular microscopes. Most viruses need special microscopes to be seen. The unidentified virus making the mimivirus ill was affectionately named Sputnik, after the Soviet Union revolutionary space craft. Scientists speculate now that there may be a whole class of viruses that attack other viruses. Why not? Viruses attack every thing else, be it plants, people, and animals. * http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080928-virus-viruses.html