Portal:Viruses/Did you know/31

...that the largest in-flight transmission of SARS virus (coronavirus pictured) took place on an Air China flight in March 2003?
...that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic antigen vaccine against HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
...that although measles was declared eradicated from the United States in 2000, more than 500 people there had been diagnosed with the disease in January–May 2019?
...that Barrie Marmion spearheaded the development of the first vaccine against Q fever?
...that Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker's book Deadliest Enemy provides a nine-point plan to defeat "killer germs"?