Portal:Viruses/Did you know/30




 * ...that despite being unaffected by rabies or pseudorabies, the sea urchin Tripneustes depressus (pictured) contains antivirals to these diseases?
 * ...that although Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown?
 * ...that Egyptian-American physician Adel Mahmoud oversaw the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine?
 * ...that of the initial cluster of people confirmed to have been infected by a novel coronavirus in China, two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan?
 * ...that Shahid Jameel and his group were the first to identify subtype C strain as the most common HIV-1 infection among Indians?