Portal:Viruses/Did you know/29




 * ...that the elegant rice rat (pictured; top) sometimes carries a hantavirus that can cause a fatal disease in humans?
 * ...that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
 * ...that in 1918, infected crew members aboard HMS Mantua inadvertently spread the Spanish flu to Africa?
 * ...that in the mid-1980s, some HIV patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called HPA-23?
 * ...that Li Zaiping and his research group were the first to sequence a viral genome in China?