What Was The First Virus?

Researched and Written by Leila Battison Narrated and Edited by David Kelly Art by Khail Kupsky Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza If you like our videos, check out Leila's youtube channel:    / @drleilabattison   Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist. References: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topic... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... https://www.ft.com/content/8009dad5-9... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article... https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/    • The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years   https://elifesciences.org/articles/12704 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic... http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/201... http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/exter... Image credits: Roman relief By Rabax63 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Surgical Roman instruments By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/... https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/... Collection gallery (2018-04-02): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Antonine Plague By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/... https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/... Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Smallpox Virus De Dr Graham Beards at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Mimivirus By Sarah Duponchel and Matthias G. Fischer - extracted from this Commons file, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Coccoliphore By Robin Mejia. Image courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor. - [1] doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001087, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... coccolithophores virus by By DHRUVA SRINIVAS - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Diversity of coccolithophores By Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. - https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte..., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Coccolithophore By ja:User:NEON / commons:User:NEON_ja - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Human Genome Project By National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA - Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Eckard Wimmer By SummerWillow - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Pythovirus By Pavel Hrdlička, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Electron Bacteriophages By Dr Graham Beards - en:Image:Phage.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...