Portal:Viruses/Did you know/24

...that Bourbon virus (pictured), discovered in 2014 from a man who died after tick bites, is the first thogotovirus to be associated with human disease in the Western hemisphere?
...that the viral Early 35 kDa protein may be useful in gene therapy as a universal inhibitor of programmed cell death?
...that the American Society for Virology, the first independent scientific society specifically for virologists, was founded as recently as 1981?
...that Czech scientist Antonín Holý cooperated on the development of important antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B?
...that the long-haired grass mouse is an important reservoir species for the Andes virus?