Portal:Viruses/Did you know/3


 * ...that Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat (pictured) is one of three fruit-eating bats found to be a reservoir for Ebola virus in the wild?
 * ...that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?
 * ...that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?
 * ...that the log-Cauchy distribution has been proposed as a model for the progression of HIV in individuals?
 * ...that Corona, named after Corona, is fighting corona?