Thousands of unknown viruses discovered in baby poo – why this is not necessarily a bad thing

By Evelien Adriaenssens, Group Leader, Gut viruses & Viromics, Quadram Institute

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo 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.

This may alarm many readers. Viruses haven’t exactly had a good reputation in recent years. But what many people don’t realise is that the overwhelming…

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