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: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIk7euOGq6jkptjTzEz5kQ Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist. References: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origins-of-viruses-14398218/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00523/full https://www.ft.com/content/8009dad5-9665-4602-b61c-2a294f781568 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/endogenous-retroviruses/ https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3L_Kykl6w https://elifesciences.org/articles/12704 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galen.shtml http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/issue127a/ http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/presentations/The-human-genome-and-what-we-do-with-it.pdf Image credits: Roman relief By Rabax63 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62640557 Surgical Roman instruments By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/da/ca/54b9d8e72d8093b330b5c708356d.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0003939.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-02): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/buh7dcjy CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35866346 Antonine Plague By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/70/48/4b5c28e57609137dd2009ae490f2.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0010664.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p8gxfxrp CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36456028 Smallpox Virus De Dr Graham Beards at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36392524 Mimivirus By Sarah Duponchel and Matthias G. Fischer - extracted from this Commons file, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90252786 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.php?curid=99404892 coccolithophores virus by By DHRUVA SRINIVAS - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56029401 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/content/2/7/e1501822, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91145677 Coccolithophore By ja:User:NEON / commons:User:NEON_ja - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1574059 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.php?curid=52360074 Eckard Wimmer By SummerWillow - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25635799 Pythovirus By Pavel Hrdlička, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31465816 Electron Bacteriophages By Dr Graham Beards - en:Image:Phage.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5035798