Portal:Viruses/Did you know/8

...that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
...that research by Dorothy M. Horstmann and Robert W. McCollum at Yale University showed that the poliovirus reaches the brain by way of the blood, leading to the development of the polio vaccine in the early 1950s?
...that sea sponge aquaculture has the potential to generate novel anti-inflammatory and antiviral drugs?
...that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19, Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
...that CCR5 receptor antagonists are drugs that inhibit the entry of HIV into cells of the immune system?