Portal:Viruses/Did you know/9


 * ...that composer Mozart (pictured) learned card tricks and fencing while recovering from smallpox?
 * ...that the anabolic steroid oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
 * ...that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
 * ...that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost?
 * ...that LdMNPV EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?