Portal:Viruses/Did you know/29

...that the elegant rice rat (pictured; top) sometimes carries a hantavirus that can cause a fatal disease in humans?
...that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
...that in 1918, infected crew members aboard HMS Mantua inadvertently spread the Spanish flu to Africa?
...that in the mid-1980s, some HIV patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called HPA-23?
...that Li Zaiping and his research group were the first to sequence a viral genome in China?