Portal:Viruses/Did you know/16

...that in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass (pictured) volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
...that obesity, Alzheimer's disease and cancer have been associated with infectious pathogens?
...that the village of Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland, is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom?
...that Australian Edward Both invented the Both respirator, an iron lung made from plywood, to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
...that the award-winning film Frank's Cock is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with AIDS?