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... that the
1957–1958 influenza pandemic killed at least one million people worldwide? (2020-05-11)
... that during the
1967 outbreak of
foot and mouth disease in the
United Kingdom , around 430,000 animals were slaughtered? (2009-08-28)
... that in 2007, the first
Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on
horse racing ? (2007-09-02)
... that the
2013 dengue outbreak is one of the worst outbreaks of
the disease in
Singapore to date? (2013-06-15)
... that
COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of
dengue fever in
Singapore's 2020 outbreak ? (2022-07-19)
... that
Adenovirus serotype 14 is an
emerging
virus , related to the
common cold , that has recently caused 10 deaths in the
United States , including at least one healthy young adult? (2007-11-20)
... that
agnoprotein (pictured) is found in two
polyomaviruses that can cause human disease,
JC virus and
BK virus ? (2016-08-22)
... that the
Alternanthera mosaic virus , a type of
Potexvirus , has been misdiagnosed as the closely-related
Papaya mosaic virus ? (2009-01-18)
... that the
American Society for Virology , the first independent
scientific society specifically for
virologists , was founded only 34 years ago? (2015-06-09)
... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how
Alaskapox virus , a recently discovered relative of
Monkeypox virus , has spread to humans from animals? (2022-07-19)
... that
Bourbon virus (pictured) , discovered in 2014 from a man who died after
tick bites, is the first
thogotovirus to be associated with human disease in the Western hemisphere? (2015-04-17)
... that
due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic ,
Warner Bros. ' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's
Contagion ? (2020-03-27)
... that after suspected
coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India , started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using
indelible ink ? (2020-04-16)
... that a man suspected of carrying
coronavirus in Nepal ran away from the hospital? (2020-03-18)
... that residents of
Rankin Inlet , Nunavut, blocked access to a local goldmine over fears of COVID-19 , even though
Nunavut had no confirmed cases ? (2020-05-29)
... that "
Catch It, Bin It, Kill It " (poster shown) , a slogan first used in 2007, has been revived to fight the
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom ? (2020-04-04)
... that the CEO of
CEPI , a key organisation in the race to develop a
vaccine for COVID-19 , has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career? (2020-03-31)
... that
coccolithovirus , a giant double-stranded
DNA
virus , has 472
protein -coding
genes , and is the largest known marine virus by
genome ? (2006-06-02)
... that
coughs and sneezes spread diseases (poster shown) ? (2020-05-02)
... that
a novel virus may be implicated in its
parasitic wasp host turning the
spotted lady beetle into a "zombie bodyguard"? (2015-02-18)
... that experts on the
World Health Organization 's emergency committee believe that
COVID-19 could be the first
Disease X ? (2020-04-07)
... that vaccine coverage at schools around the
Disneyland Resort was too low for
herd immunity when
measles broke out in 2014 ? (2022-03-07)
... that
double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from
gastroenteritis in young children to
bluetongue disease in livestock? (2007-11-27)
... that COVID-19 vaccine scientist
Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit? (2022-01-07)
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (article's talk page missing blurb) (2006-05-16)
... that the old adage "
feed a cold, starve a fever " was first published in a 1574 dictionary? (2023-03-02)
... that professor
Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the
2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported? (2020-03-11)
... that
Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat (pictured) is one of three fruit-eating bats found to be a reservoir for
Ebola virus in the wild? (2011-06-01)
... that research by Dr.
Harold Ginsberg on
adenoviruses led to the development of
gene therapy , in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease? (2010-08-22)
... that the
groundnut rosette virus , which causes serious damage to peanut crops in Africa, is spread by the
groundnut aphid ? (2015-02-22)
... that
HPgV-2 is the second human
pegivirus ever discovered? (2018-02-07)
... that the
hairpin ribozyme is an
RNA that can encode
genetic information and
catalyze biological
reactions ? (2010-09-25)
... that
virologist
Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the
Gairdner Foundation International Award and the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008? (2008-10-13)
... that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for
hepatitis E ? (2019-09-09)
... that before the
Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of
DNA , scientists believed that
genes were carried by
proteins ? (2011-04-08)
... that humans and horses are
dead-end hosts for the
West Nile virus ? (2018-04-10)
... 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 ? (2009-05-06)
... that the
human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found
virus in samples collected from the
respiratory system ? (2008-11-23)
... that 95% of adults have been
infected by
human herpesvirus 7 , a virus that can cause
influenza-like illness and
seizures but normally causes no
symptoms ? (2010-08-25)
... that during the
COVID-19 pandemic ,
Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice ? (2020-06-07)
... that during the
COVID-19 pandemic , United Nations secretary-general
António Guterres called for
a global domestic violence "ceasefire" ? (2020-06-15)
... that although
Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect
cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown? (2019-01-11)
... that the 2018–2020
Kivu Ebola epidemic was the
Democratic Republic of the Congo 's 10th and longest
Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the
outbreak in West Africa ? (2021-03-26)
... that the
Kunjin virus , which can be
transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause
encephalitis in humans, is named for an
Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated? (2009-08-16)
... that according to
(RED) , providing health-restoring
antiretroviral drugs to
HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary
The Lazarus Effect , costs
US$ 0.40 per person per day? (2010-08-18)
... that the
outbreak of Ebola in
Bundibugyo District in
Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the
Ebola virus? (2009-12-02)
... that because
photomicrographs of
Longan witches broom-associated virus were not published, the virus was not initially accepted as the cause of the eponymous disease? (2019-12-12)
... that
LdMNPV 's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior? (2012-10-04)
... that the vaccine
MVA-B has been found to create a resistance to
HIV in 90% of the Phase I testers? (2011-10-11)
... that although
measles was declared eradicated from the United States in 2000,
more than 500 people there have been diagnosed with the disease so far in 2019? (2019-05-18)
... that a
novel human polyomavirus is associated with
Merkel cell carcinoma , a rare and highly aggressive form of
skin cancer ? (2008-04-13)
... that the
Mokola virus is a relative of the
rabies virus and was first isolated in
tree shrews ? (2005-07-28)
... that
murine polyomavirus (pictured) is an
oncovirus that causes tumors in newborn
mice ? (2015-08-02)
... that Governor
Andrew Cuomo , who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in
a scandal related to it ? (2021-03-17)
... that
Shetlander
Johnnie Notions , a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox
inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before
Jenner's vaccine was available? (2019-12-28)
... that
Melahat Okuyan , a Turkish female
microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of
male brothels for homosexuals and
cross-dressers in order to improve public health? (2017-10-21)
... that a
Bird Flu pre-
pandemic
vaccine called
Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the
EU for the
inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic? (2008-06-30)
... that death due to the
Parapoxvirus is one of the main reasons for the decline of the number of Red
squirrels on the
British Isles ? (2005-03-21)
... that
Trinidadian
virologist Dr.
Joseph Lennox Pawan
M.B.E. was the first person to show that
rabies could be spread by
vampire bats to other animals and humans? (2011-04-05)
... that studies in
phage ecology indicate that
viruses may be the most abundant
organisms on
Earth ? (2006-09-10)
... that the
phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around
Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the
origins of molecular biology ? (2007-05-10)
... that the
genetically modified
plum C5 is the only
Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease
plum pox ? (2005-07-09)
... that
polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the
CIA as cover in the search for
Osama bin Laden ? (2012-06-03)
... that there are two known
Polyomaviruses which infect humans? (2004-07-01)
... that a
quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it? (2015-03-30)
... that the
p19 protein (dimer pictured) evolved in an
arms race between plants and viruses? (2017-01-08)
... that
Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a
viral disease of
Atlantic Salmon which affects
fish farms in
Canada ,
Norway , and
Scotland ? (2005-05-17)
... that in 1978, populations of the
gulf sea star in the
Gulf of California were devastated by
starfish wasting disease and had not fully recovered twenty years later? (2013-11-24)
... that
Robert Shope , described as a "walking encyclopaedia" of
arboviruses , discovered more novel viruses than anyone previously? (2016-03-18)
... that the stripes on
tulips (examples pictured) that caused
tulip mania were probably caused by a
virus , but this was
unknown to science at the time? (2010-12-08)
... that in addition to infecting squashes, the
squash mosaic virus also infects melons? (2013-10-31)
... that virologist
Stephen Straus , first head of the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine , said he did not use
alternative medicine ? (2016-09-27)
... that the
T4 rII experimental system enabled
biologist
Seymour Benzer to map a
gene down to the level of one or two
base pairs before the invention of
DNA sequencing ? (2009-02-13)
... that
transmission of COVID-19 is known to occur through
respiratory droplets , contaminated surfaces, kissing, and
aerosol-generating medical procedures ? (2020-08-31)
... that
viral vector vaccines currently in use include four
COVID-19 vaccines and two
Ebola vaccines ? (2021-04-26)
... that
Virology is the first English-language journal to focus on
viruses ? (2013-02-22)
... that the
Visna virus , a
retrovirus that causes
encephalitis and chronic
pneumonitis in
sheep , is used as a
model system for
HIV infection? (2009-02-11)
... that during the
West African Ebola virus epidemic as many as 15 different vaccines were in development? (2016-11-17)
... that a
COVID-19 outbreak at the White House infected at least 35 people, including
the President ,
First Lady , three senators, and
a governor ? (2020-10-08)
... that in 2020,
COVID-19 –related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews? (2023-05-01)
... that the recently discovered
Zamilon virophage (pictured) casts doubt on the concept of
virophages ? (2016-03-22)
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AntigenicShift HiRes
Child with Smallpox Bangladesh
Ebola Virus - Electron Micrograph
MRNA vaccines against the coronavirus
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Phage
SARS-CoV-2 scanning electron microscope image
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AntigenicShift HiRes (2011-05-19)
Child with Smallpox Bangladesh (2013-10-26)
Ebola Virus - Electron Micrograph (2020-03-26)
MRNA vaccines against the coronavirus (2021-10-21)
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (2021-09-03)
Phage (2020-05-24)
SARS-CoV-2 scanning electron microscope image (2022-02-22)
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