Portal:Viruses/Did you know/32




 * ...that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E (virus pictured)?
 * ...that the African hut tampan can transmit relapsing fever in humans and African swine fever in pigs?
 * ...that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak?
 * ...that after a 2002 study inaccurately claimed a measles and autism link due to improper qPCR data, scientists developed the MIQE guidelines to show the minimum level of reported data required for qPCR?
 * ...that Linda Laubenstein was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s?