Portal:Viruses/Did you know/6


 * ...that coccolithovirus (pictured, arrow), a giant double-stranded DNA virus, has 472 protein-coding genes, and was the largest known marine virus by genome until the 2013 discovery of Pandoravirus salinus?
 * ...that Tony Minson developed a new way of disabling viruses for vaccines?
 * ...that the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch, a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, is the first film project from Google's philanthropic division Google.org?
 * ...that a June 5, 1981, report by Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"?
 * ...that elastomeric respirators are used not only to protect against COVID-19 and tear gas, but also as fashion items?