Oncolytic virus -- viruses used to treat cancer, lead needs editing to integrate new material. Suitable image a problem. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:15, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Jelly roll fold -- common structural motif in virus capsids. Probably more suitable for Selected image. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Pandemic -- long article with much virus-related content; currently newsworthy. Now two orange-level tags. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:45, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Marine viruses -- long interesting heavily illustrated article split off in 2020. Espresso Addict (talk) 10:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Viral evolution -- important topic, currently in the news; decent article, problem with suitable image (use video from quasispecies?). Espresso Addict (talk) 23:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Single virus or small group. Must include a usable image of the virus.
Thogotovirus -- tickborne arbovirus; another ssRNA; image poor (self-nom). Espresso Addict (talk) 00:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Murine polyomavirus -- excellent images (one used at DYK); mouse oncovirus; dsDNA; related papillomaviruses. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Arenavirus -- mainly rodents, segmented ssRNA. Lassa fever timely. Usable image removed in Aug 2020 but still exists & could be re-added somewhere: File:Lassa virus virions TEM 8699 lores.jpg Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Bacteriophage T12 -- perhaps the best phage article; interesting in coding S pyogenes toxin; no image in article but could potentially use a generic T-even diagram. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Croup -- associated with various viruses; acceptable image or could use sound file. Espresso Addict (talk) 20:15, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Pneumonia -- viruses cause a third of pneumonia cases and are well covered in the article; images available. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Rinderpest -- important historical vet virus, eradication interesting. Espresso Addict (talk) 18:55, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Middle East respiratory syndrome -- reasonably well developed; lead suffers from short sentence syndrome. Images available. Probably least problematic of various coronavirus disease articles. (SARS is currently used in outbreaks.) Espresso Addict (talk) 01:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Individual antiviral drugs & vaccines. Must have an image; preferably not just a chemical line diagram.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis -- interesting strategy, reasonable article (US focus & parts possibly need updating); could use Truvada tablet as image. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:45, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
1510 influenza pandemic -- first chronicled global influenza pandemic; well-developed reasonably sourced article. Lots of illustrations but most of them very generic. Espresso Addict (talk) 01:13, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Virologists and medical researchers who work on viruses preferred. Free images preferred but not essential.
Robert Shope -- American arbovirologist, epidemiologist & public health specialist; free image; self nom. Espresso Addict (talk) 01:17, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Henrietta Lacks -- American women who was source of Hela cell line, died of cervical cancer. No free image. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Linda Laubenstein -- American AIDS-treating physician associated with Kaposi's; also polio sufferer. No free image. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Joseph Sonnabend -- South African AIDS-treating physician, controversial views on multifactorial AIDS causation, founding editor of AIDS Research. No free image. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Eli Todd -- 18th–19th century American physician associated with smallpox inoculation. Free image available. Espresso Addict (talk) 08:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- 17th–18th century pioneer of smallpox inoculation. Good free image available. Currently used in images. Espresso Addict (talk) 09:13, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Bette Korber -- living computational biologist who works on HIV; no dob; free image. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:31, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Sets of five items with one image, covering a varied set of topics and preferably including at least one item on a virus or viral disease. All have appeared in the main page DYK section.
This displays up to 50 DYKs from the past 24 months about virus, viral, influenza, measles, polio, E/ebola, Zika, Covid, HIV, AIDS, HPV, smallpox, vaccin, inocul, quarantine, epidem, epidemiolog, pandemic, tropical disease; not all results will be relevant.
... that Paul Parkman, one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
... that Uncle Waffles learned how to DJ during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and then retired from being an Eswatini TV presenter once her music career took off?
... that some song choices by Regine Velasquez in her concert series Solo were viral hits from TikTok?
... that Saint John's Island was the site of one of the British Empire's largest quarantine centres and held one of the first experimental drug rehabilitation centres?
... that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?
... that on the day of her Silver concert, singer Regine Velasquez suffered from a viral infection and temporarily lost her voice?
... that Paul Harvey improvised a viral piano piece using only four notes?
... that the novel Anon Pls. is based on the author's real-life experience going viral on Instagram?
... that the cremated remains of AIDS activist Ortez Alderson were thrown onto the South Lawn of the White House in the ACT UP Ashes Action of 1992?
...that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
...that to help counteract misleading online information on vaccines, the Vaccine Safety Net provides a list of scientifically reviewed websites?
...that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute?[C class; 2020]
...that the 1951 British film Surprise Attack(title card pictured) warned of the danger of not being vaccinated against infectious diseases? [start]
... virus/viral disease/similar
...that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain? [C class]
...that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby?[2014]
Virologists, medical researchers, infectious disease specialists &c[edit]
Other
none
Coronavirus related
...that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr. Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the coronavirus?[B class, controversial]
...that the Hong Kong government withdrew their decision to use Fai Ming Estate as a quarantine facility following protests from nearby residents? [C class]
...that a man suspected of carrying coronavirus in Nepal ran away from the hospital? [C class, appears out of date]
...that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India, started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink?[C/start; looks out of date]
HIV related
...that the practice in East Africaofflashblood, injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV"? [2010]
Interventions (drugs, vaccines), related bodies[edit]
...that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, the new album by rock group Sparks, contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19, even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic? [start]
...that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song "We Are One", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19?[start]
...that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Robert Chesley's erotic and emotional play Jerker takes place entirely over the telephone?
...that for 24 hours, for every download of the song "Invisible" by U2, Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation (RED), raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
...that the book Tell The Wolves I'm Home follows the life of a girl whose uncle died of AIDS in the 1980s?
...that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease? [start]
...that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19?[start]
... that Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS?
... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?
... that Gideon Byamugisha was the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive?
... that Thomas H. Paterniti introduced legislation in the state of New Jersey that would hold owners of adult bookstores liable if individuals contracted AIDS as a result of sexual activity on the premises?
... that Werner Schuster, who in the Bundestag was concerned with health policy, Africa and the fight against AIDS, founded a civic partnership between Idstein in Germany and Moshi in Tanzania?
... that HIV activist Josh Robbins was diagnosed with HIV while participating in the HIV vaccine research study HVTN 505?[fact no longer clear in article]
...that Virginia Apuzzo was a nun until shortly after the Stonewall riots, when she left her convent and became a gay rights and AIDS activist?
...that in 1988 Ruth Lockhart oversaw campus AIDS education programs like "Love Carefully Day", when flowers, candies, and condoms were distributed to students to give to "that special someone"?
...that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV-positive in his New York Times obituary?
...that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV-positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl? [start]
...that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million? [C class]
...that Fonner ParkinGrand Island, Nebraska, was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic? [C class]
...that El Salvador converted its main convention center into a COVID-19 hospital that, when completed, will have 2,000 beds? [start; wording needs future proofing]
... that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology?[deleted for being created by banned user]
...that the vaccine MVA-B has been found to create a resistance to HIV in 90% of the Phase I testers? [orange tag]
...that the new antiretroviral drugapricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by the British company Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company? [retired, out of date (2008)]
...that Nicholas Wilder said that being diagnosed with AIDS was just another "adventure"? [start; orange tag]
...that death due to the Parapoxvirus is one of the main reasons for the decline in the number of red squirrels in the British Isles?[2005; fact no longer in article]
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* ... that '''[[Joel Breman]]''', who helped combat the [[1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak|1976 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire]], was not expected to return alive by the pilots who dropped him there?
* ... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus, a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus, has spread to humans from animals?
* ... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how '''''[[Alaskapox virus]]''''', a recently discovered relative of ''[[Monkeypox virus]]'', has spread to humans from animals?
* ... that Potamophylax coronavirus's range has been described as a battlefield between scientists and hydropower plant management?
* ... that '''''[[Potamophylax coronavirus]]'''''{{'s}} range has been described as a battlefield between scientists and hydropower plant management?
* ... that '''[[Guy Thwaites]]''' and his colleagues hypothesized that the [[1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak|1993 US hantavirus outbreak]] was similar to the mysterious medieval [[sweating sickness]]?
:The [[World Health Organization]] officially confirms a human [[Influenza A virus subtype H9N2]] case in a child in [[West Bengal|West Bengal state]], [[India]]. [https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/who-confirms-human-case-of-bird-flu-in-india-h9n2-virus-detected-in-a-four-year-child-in-west-bengal/articleshow/110941217.cms (''Business Insider'')]
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-- interesting Roman pandemic attributed to smallpox/measles. Several usable images. One unsourced paragraph. (Start-class assessment appears outdated.) Espresso Addict (talk) 01:13, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
