While the world scrabbles around looking for a cure for the deadly coronavirus, scientists have found another virus.

Unlike the former which started in China, this new one comes from an artificial lake in Brazil.

Independent reports that this virus named “Yaravirus” was found in an amoebae. It was named after “Yara” or “Iara,” which means ‘mother of waters’ – a mythical siren/mermaid figure from Brazilian mythology who would lure sailors underwater.

Scientists are saying that this virus is mysterious because it has genes that no one has seen before.

Reporting the new discovery in bioRxiv, a biological sciences website, the researchers wrote: “We report the discovery of Yaravirus, a new lineage of amoebal virus with a puzzling origin and phylogeny.”

According to Jônatas Abrahão, senior author and a virologist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, ” It was really a big surprise since so far we only know giant viruses infecting amoebas, not small viruses.”

He revealed that they searched for the Yaravirus’ gene signature in thousands of environmental genomic data and found nothing, “indicating how rare this virus is.”

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