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The ancient sample was “the oldest virus [found] in humans yet,” according to Danish microbiologist and lead study author Sofie Holtsmark Nielsen, who spoke with the New Scientist about her team’s remarkable achievements. It represents “the first molecular evidence that early modern humans in the Pleistocene hosted common childhood viral infections,” Nielsen and her partners wrote in their bioRxiv article. Previously, the oldest viral sample taken from a human specimen was just 7,000 years old. In the same study, the scientists also found four versions of the modern herpes virus , including herpes simplex-1, which can cause cold sores to develop. Viruses of many types were obviously well-established in human populations tens of thousands of years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch when glaciers still covered a sizable area of the Earth. ....