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Elegant rice rat (top)
...that the
elegant rice rat
(pictured; top)
sometimes carries a
hantavirus
that can cause a
fatal disease
in humans?
...that a
quaranjavirus
that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
...that in 1918, infected crew members aboard
HMS
Mantua
inadvertently spread the
Spanish flu
to Africa?
...that in the mid-1980s, some
HIV
patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called
HPA-23
?
...that
Li Zaiping
and his research group were the first to sequence a
viral genome
in China?
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