Portal:Viruses/Did you know/4

...that the protein ASF/SF2 (molecular image pictured) is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1?
...that in February 2020, Neil Ferguson and his team believed that significantly more people in China had been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than had been reported?
...that the outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the Ebola virus?
...that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
...that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer?