Portal:Viruses/Did you know/9

...that composer Mozart (pictured) learned card tricks and fencing while recovering from smallpox?
...that the anabolic steroid oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
...that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
...that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost?
...that LdMNPV's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?