Portal:Viruses/Did you know/3

Original illustration of Epauletted Fruit Bat in the 1860 monograph where it was described

...that Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat (pictured) is one of three fruit-eating bats found to be a reservoir for Ebola virus in the wild?
...that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?
...that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?
...that the log-Cauchy distribution has been proposed as a model for the progression of HIV in individuals?
...that Corona, named after Corona, is fighting corona?