Portal:Viruses/Did you know/5

...that elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, found mostly among young captive Asian elephants (pictured), can have a fatality rate of up to 90%?
...that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage?
...that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy?
...that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV diagnoses in the United Kingdom?
...that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?