Portal:Viruses/Did you know/4


 * ...that the protein ASF/SF2 (molecular image pictured) is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1?
 * ...that in February 2020, Neil Ferguson and his team believed that significantly more people in China had been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than had been reported?
 * ...that the outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the Ebola virus?
 * ...that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
 * ...that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer?