Shit is weird. What's weirder is you can patent naturally occuring organisms. It said the virus was isolated from infected patients and they're referring to it as 'the invention' in the patent. Uh, no. It was 'invented' via natural processes - you, Mr. or Ms. patent filer, had nothing to do with it.

I should try to patent strawberries. "Ya so I isolated this strawberry bush and harvested the invention..." 'cause that's basically what they're doing.