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The virus was created by 20-year-old Dutch student Jan de Wit, who used the pseudonym "OnTheFly", on 11 February 2001. It was designed to trick email users into clicking to open an email attachment, ostensibly an image of the professional tennis player Anna Kournikova but instead hiding a malicious program.
Strain: Coxsackie A virus. A transmission electron microscopic image depicting virions causing acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, primarily caused by two enteroviruses: enterovirus 70, and a variant of coxsackievirus A24. [1] Coxsackie A virus ( CAV) is a cytolytic Coxsackievirus of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus (a group containing ...
v. t. e. The history of coronaviruses is an account of the discovery of the diseases caused by coronaviruses and the diseases they cause. It starts with the first report of a new type of upper-respiratory tract disease among chickens in North Dakota, U.S., in 1931. The causative agent was identified as a virus in 1933.
The history of virology – the scientific study of viruses and the infections they cause – began in the closing years of the 19th century. Although Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccines to protect against viral infections, they did not know that viruses existed. The first evidence of the existence of viruses came from ...
A24 is an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution. The company is based in Manhattan. [1] The company was founded in 2012 by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges. [3] Prior to A24, all had worked extensively in film and production before leaving their ...
In January 2022, a short horror film titled "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" was uploaded to YouTube. Created by then-16-year-old Kane Parsons of Northern California, known online as Kane Pixels, it is presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a monster.
In February 2021, after conducting part of their study, the WHO stated that the likely origin of COVID-19 was a zoonotic event from a virus circulating in bats, likely through another animal carrier, and that the time of transmission to humans was likely towards the end of 2019.
On 11 February 2020, the WHO named the disease COVID-19 (short for coronavirus disease 2019). That same day, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) formally announced it had named the causative virus as SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) based upon its genetic similarity to the 2003 SARS-CoV.