Portal:Viruses/Did you know/37

...that Erica Schwartz (pictured) provided health protection guidance for the US military's response to Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak?
...that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
...that the wild mushroom Lactifluus piperatus, which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts?
...that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
...that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?