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Selected article

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Current selections: social history of viruses, history of virology, vaccination, prion, immune system, virus classification, bacteriophage, plant virus, infection, reverse transcriptase, interferon, RNA interference, poliomyelitis eradication, virus quantification, Hershey–Chase experiment, bat virome

Broad articles of general interest.

Selected virus (subviral agent)

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Current selections: rotavirus, HIV, canine parvovirus, poliovirus, norovirus, Papillomaviridae, hantavirus, Epstein–Barr virus, West Nile virus, Adenoviridae, tobacco mosaic virus, mimivirus, alphavirus, cauliflower mosaic virus, adeno-associated virus, henipavirus, Sputnik virophage, hepatitis D, coronavirus

Single virus or small group. Must include a usable image of the virus.

  • Thogotovirus -- tickborne arbovirus; another ssRNA; image poor (self-nom). Espresso Addict (talk) 00:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Murine polyomavirus -- excellent images (one used at DYK); mouse oncovirus; dsDNA; related papillomaviruses. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Arenavirus -- mainly rodents, segmented ssRNA. Lassa fever timely. Usable image removed in Aug 2020 but still exists & could be re-added somewhere: File:Lassa virus virions TEM 8699 lores.jpg Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Bacteriophage T12 -- perhaps the best phage article; interesting in coding S pyogenes toxin; no image in article but could potentially use a generic T-even diagram. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
  • African swine fever virus -- moderately developed vet virus. Good images. Feb 2021: now orange tagged Espresso Addict (talk) 00:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Suggest another article here

Selected disease

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Current selections: dengue fever, poliomyelitis, smallpox, influenza, hepatitis B, herpes simplex, common cold, herpes zoster, meningitis, hepatitis C, gastroenteritis, yellow fever, chickenpox, HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer, Ebola virus disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, measles, foot-and-mouth disease, rabies, Zika fever, myxomatosis

A few suggestions include:

Selected intervention

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Current selections: zidovudine, aciclovir, polio vaccine, MMR vaccine controversy, ribavirin, HPV vaccines, nevirapine, oseltamivir, influenza vaccine, Ebola vaccine

Individual antiviral drugs & vaccines. Must have an image; preferably not just a chemical line diagram.

  • Pre-exposure prophylaxis -- interesting strategy, reasonable article (US focus & parts possibly need updating); could use Truvada tablet as image. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:45, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
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Selected outbreak

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Current selections: 1918 flu pandemic, 2009 flu pandemic, West African Ebola virus epidemic, 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak, 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom, 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, severe acute respiratory syndrome, 1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak

Historical outbreaks of viral disease.

Selected biography

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Current selections: Edward Jenner, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Jonas Salk, Rosalind Franklin, Aniru Conteh, Ryan White, list of poliomyelitis survivors, Frederick Sanger, Randy Shilts, Thomas Henry Flewett, George Hirst (virologist), Walter Reed/, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Peter Piot, Ali Maow Maalin

Virologists and medical researchers who work on viruses preferred. Free images preferred but not essential.

Selected picture

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Suggested events for In this month

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Suggest events below. A reference is helpful where the linked article does not provide one.

Selected quotation

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Suggest quotations below. A reference is helpful.

Did you know...?

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Sets of five items with one image, covering a varied set of topics and preferably including at least one item on a virus or viral disease. All have appeared in the main page DYK section.

Autosearch results

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This displays up to 50 DYKs from the past 24 months about virus, viral, influenza, measles, polio, E/ebola, Zika, Covid, HIV, AIDS, HPV, smallpox, vaccin, inocul, quarantine, epidem, epidemiolog, pandemic, tropical disease; not all results will be relevant.

Set #41

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Catch It, Bin It, Kill It poster
Catch It, Bin It, Kill It poster

Set #42

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Surprise Attack title card
Surprise Attack title card
  • ...that the 1951 British film Surprise Attack (title card pictured) warned of the danger of not being vaccinated against infectious diseases? [start]
  • ... virus/viral disease/similar
  • ...that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain? [C class]
  • ...that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby? [2014]
  • ...

Unassigned

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Virologists, medical researchers, infectious disease specialists &c

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Other
  • none
Coronavirus related
HIV related
  • ...that immunologist and AIDS advocate Robert Frascino considered himself privileged after being infected with HIV? [2011]
  • ...that a program developed by Allan Ronald has been "pivotal" in understanding and preventing transmission of AIDS in Africa? [2013; retired]

Viruses, viral diseases

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  • none

Epidemiology, outbreaks, locations of outbreaks

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Coronavirus related
HIV related
  • ...that the practice in East Africa of flashblood, injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV"? [2010]
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  • none

Media eg books, films, songs

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Coronavirus
HIV

Other people

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Includes physicians who are not infectious disease specialists, nurses, activists and similar.

Other
Coronavirus related
HIV related
Jeannette Kagame
Jeannette Kagame

Miscellaneous

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Coronavirus related
HIV related
Yuri Luzhkov
Yuri Luzhkov
Other

Problematic hooks

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Automated suggestions

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