Portal:Viruses/Did you know/37


 * ...that Erica Schwartz (pictured) provided health protection guidance for the US military's response to Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak?
 * ...that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
 * ...that the wild mushroom Lactifluus piperatus, which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts?
 * ...that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
 * ...that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?