Portal:Viruses/Did you know/17




 * ...that Australian pilot and nurse Robin Miller (monument pictured) borrowed money to buy a Cessna 182 and flew to remote outback areas in Western Australia to vaccinate Indigenous Australian children against polio, becoming known as the "Sugarbird Lady"?
 * ...that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews?
 * ...that in 1995–97, a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life-threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases?
 * ...that Batheay District in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in 2006?
 * ...that Fig Trees, an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?