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Virus, Vincent. Not virion B-) I am going to go all Forterre in my future teaching and talk of virocells and virions.

Hear, hear Ed. The ICTV has wasted many hours trying to accomodate those who have refused to updated their antediluvian view that the virion is "the virus" and therefore "borrowed life", rather than that virions and virocells are just two phases of the life history of viruses.

@edrybicki To the extent that Linnaean names help, they are useful. At the dawn of HIV knowledge they were useful. At the dawn of pathogenic Zika, useful. Not clear to me why it help to throw out baby and bath water. Me: Haseltine kid who met VR early.