Back
Portal:Viruses/Did you know/6
...that
coccolithovirus
(pictured, arrow)
, a giant double-stranded
DNA virus
, has 472
protein
-coding
genes
, and was the largest known marine virus by
genome
until the 2013 discovery of
Pandoravirus salinus
?
...that
Tony Minson
developed a new way of
disabling
viruses for
vaccines
?
...that the
Oscar Award-nominated film
The Final Inch
, a
documentary
about efforts to eradicate the
poliovirus
, is the first film project from
Google
's
philanthropic
division
Google.org
?
...that a June 5, 1981, report by
Joel Weisman
in
MMWR
about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the
AIDS pandemic
and "the first report on
AIDS
in the medical literature"?
...that
elastomeric respirators
are used not only to
protect against
COVID-19
and
tear gas
, but also as fashion items?
From
Wikipedia
, the free encyclopedia ยท View on
Wikipedia
Developed by
Tubidy