Portal:Viruses/Did you know/40


 * ...that modified mRNA (mRNA translation depicted) is a key technology in the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19?
 * ...that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962?
 * ...that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
 * ...that American physician Max C. Starkloff used social distancing to fight the 1918 flu pandemic in St. Louis?
 * ...that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice, William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?