“Contagium vivum fluidum,” Latin for “contagious living fluid,” was how viruses were first described in 1898. It was described as a fluid because the virus being studied was able to slip through the finest mesh filters then available, like a fluid.
“Contagium vivum fluidum,” Latin for “contagious living fluid,” was how viruses were first described in 1898. It was described as a fluid because the virus being studied was able to slip through the finest mesh filters then available, like a fluid.
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