Portal:Viruses/Did you know/15

...that George Hirst was the first person to discover a viral enzyme (pictured)?
...that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs?
...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?
...that Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy?
...that the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City?