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Baby Asian elephant
...that
elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus
, found mostly among young captive
Asian elephants
(pictured)
, can have a fatality rate of up to 90%?
...that
epidemiologist
Joseph L. Melnick
found that
polio
chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the
poliovirus
could survive for extended periods in
sewage
?
...that
a global advisory committee
has been monitoring rapidly developing
COVID-19
vaccines
against
a background of growing misinformation
and
vaccine hesitancy
?
...that sexual-health doctor
Mags Portman
and activist
Greg Owen
worked together to provide accessible
HIV
medication, preventing thousands of new HIV diagnoses in the United Kingdom?
...that before the
Hershey–Chase experiment
confirmed the role of
DNA
, scientists believed that
genes
were carried by
proteins
?
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