Thousands of unknown viruses discovered in baby feces—why this is not necessarily a bad thing

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the feces of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—ten times the number of bacterial species in the same children. Most of the viruses had never been described before.

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