Portal:Viruses/Did you know/40

...that modified mRNA (mRNA translation depicted) is a key technology in the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19?
...that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962?
...that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
...that American physician Max C. Starkloff used social distancing to fight the 1918 flu pandemic in St. Louis?
...that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice, William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?