Wednesday, August 4, 2021 (Updated 8/16/21) (Update 9/2/2025; see Addendum) (Advisory: See Update to Article, The Zika Virus Scare: An Anatomy Of How Diseases Are Manufactured For Political Objectives ) It's All In The Viruses, Dummy! The human virome consists of 338 trillion viruses... It has been estimated that there are over 380 trillion viruses inhabiting us, a community collectively known as the human virome. But these viruses are not the dangerous ones you commonly hear about, like those that cause the flu or the common cold, or more sinister infections like Ebola or dengue. Many of these viruses infect the bacteria that live inside you and are known as bacteriophages, or phages for short. The human body is a breeding ground for phages, and despite their abundance, we have very little insight into what all they or any of the other viruses in the body are doing. ...that...