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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

Think you’re only human? Legions of creatures inhabit the cracks, contours and crevices of your body — and they all contribute to who you are

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HIV jumped to the US in 1970 - 10 years before it was spotted

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Black widow spider

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Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack

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A man sleeps in an artificially lit factory

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Herpes infections are worse if contracted at the end of the day

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Bumblebee landing on a tomato plant

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Aphrodisiac virus makes plants super-attractive to bumblebees

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I was there at Ebola's bloody beginning

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Turtle with many growths characteristic of fibropapillomatosis

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Turtle herpes outbreak hints at Great Barrier Reef contamination

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Epstein-Barr virus in lurid false colour

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Gene editing could destroy herpes viruses living inside you

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Test tubes with red tops, containing Zika vaccine

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Zika vaccine protects mice, but may increase risk of dengue

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Orlando massacre prompts call to ease gay blood donor rules

As people rush to give blood to treat those wounded in the attack, campaigners say rules requiring gay men to be celibate for a year before donating are unscientific

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Failing livers transformed into healthy organs by virus therapy

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Australia to destroy alien carp by releasing herpes into rivers

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Ebola virus does a total shutdown to hide before a fresh strike

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This is what the Zika virus looks like close up – probably

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