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I agree with the people saying this is impressively kooky, but just in case here's a pretty overwhelming number of examples of common viruses in mice, how they'

by kemayo 3y ago

I agree with the people saying this is impressively kooky, but just in case here's a pretty overwhelming number of examples of common viruses in mice, how they're isolated, and how laboratory populations are then directly infected with them: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150319/ (There's plenty more out there, but that source is just so dense with examples that it seemed like a nice go-to.)

_heimdall 3y ago
To be clear, there are a ton of studies listed there but all the ones I chased down (maybe 25%) they aren't isolating the virus. My message you were replying to specifically called out Koch's Postulates [1] and the fact that virologists had to first redefine it then abandon it for epidemiological and modelling studies. You effectively proved my point here, everything I see in the survey you linked fits into that description. I'm not arguing that viruses do or don't exist, only that I've never seen a study successfully isolate viral particles in a substrate, introduce it to a novel population, and re-isolate the virus from the novel population after they begin showing signs of disease. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates