Portal:Viruses/Did you know/36


 * ...that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi (pictured; top) is infected by two different hantaviruses?
 * ...that Chinese doctor Kang Laiyi spent more than 30 years researching the epidemiology of HIV?
 * ...that in the 2014 edition of Indonesia's Jakarta Marathon, a limited number of African athletes were invited because of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa?
 * ...that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honoured as a Righteous Among the Nations?
 * ...that experts on the World Health Organization's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X?