Portal:Viruses/Did you know/23

...that murine polyomavirus (pictured) is an oncovirus that causes tumours in newborn mice?
...that Pat Nuttall showed that systemic infection of the host is not required for pathogens such as tick-borne encephalitis virus to be transmitted between vectors?
...that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
...that the 2011 film Asmaa is the first feature-length Egyptian drama film to present AIDS patients sympathetically?
...that the anti-vaccine book Melanie's Marvelous Measles has received over 1,000 one-star reviews on Amazon.com?