Portal:Viruses/Did you know/32

...that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E (virus pictured)?
...that the African hut tampan can transmit relapsing fever in humans and African swine fever in pigs?
...that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak?
...that after a 2002 study inaccurately claimed a measles and autism link due to improper qPCR data, scientists developed the MIQE guidelines to show the minimum level of reported data required for qPCR?
...that Linda Laubenstein was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s?