Portal:Viruses/Did you know/2


 * ...that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
 * ...that the Kunjin virus, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
 * ...that the Vaccine Confidence Project was developed in response to a boycott of polio eradication efforts in Nigeria?
 * ...that the Gaussian network model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain, to large macromolecular assemblies, such as ribosomes and viral capsids?
 * ...that Trinidadian virologist Joseph Lennox Pawan was the first person to show that rabies could be spread by vampire bats to other animals and humans?