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Chinese scientist ‘in shock’ after finding herpes virus can survive in oil wells



A scientist was “shocked” to discover the herpes virus in samples taken from an oil well hundreds metres under the ground in northeast China.Zhang Ying, a professor from the Institute of Applied Ecology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, found large quantities of the virus in samples taken from around a dozen wells.Scientists already knew that bacteria could survive in oil, but the discovery that viruses were also present is a very recent one and no one realised the variety and…



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