Portal:Viruses/Did you know/7


 * ...that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse (example pictured) by injecting DNA from simian virus 40?
 * ...that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
 * ...that Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus?
 * ...that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties?
 * ...that Gabriel Scally of the Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?