Portal:Viruses/Did you know/14




 * ...that during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah (pictured)?
 * ...that Deng Hongkui and Chen Hu were the first to use CRISPR gene editing on an HIV patient?
 * ...that adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus, related to the common cold, that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States, including at least one healthy young adult?
 * ...that the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology?
 * ...that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?