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...that
derivatives
of diamond-like
compound
adamantane
(model pictured)
are used as drugs against
flu
and
Parkinson's disease
?
...that for 36 years, only two
polyomaviruses
were known to infect humans?
...that
Ali Maow Maalin
was the last person in the world to be infected with naturally occurring
smallpox
?
...that in his 2005 book
Race Against Time
, the
UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Stephen Lewis
claimed the spread of
AIDS across Africa
is partly due to a succession of disastrous economic policies promoted by
international financial institutions
?
...that his son's infection with
polio
in 1930 led
electrical engineer
Reinhold Rudenberg
to develop an
electron microscope
as a tool to study the
poliovirus
?
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