Portal:Viruses/Did you know/17

...that Australian pilot and nurse Robin Miller (monument pictured) borrowed money to buy a Cessna 182 and flew to remote outback areas in Western Australia to vaccinate Indigenous Australian children against polio, becoming known as the "Sugarbird Lady"?
...that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews?
...that in 1995–97, a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life-threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases?
...that Batheay District in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in 2006?
...that Fig Trees, an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?