Portal:Viruses/Did you know/7

...that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse (example pictured) by injecting DNA from simian virus 40?
...that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
...that Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus?
...that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties?
...that Gabriel Scally of the Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?