Portal:Viruses/Did you know/14

...that during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah (pictured)?
...that Deng Hongkui and Chen Hu were the first to use CRISPR gene editing on an HIV patient?
...that adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus, related to the common cold, that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States, including at least one healthy young adult?
...that the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology?
...that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?