Portal:Viruses/Calendar/December

1 December 1988: First World AIDS Day

4 December 1915: Frederick Twort discovered bacteriophages

4 December 2009: New order of single-stranded RNA viruses, Tymovirales, announced

6 December 1995: Saquinavir approved by FDA; the first HIV protease inhibitor

6 December 2013: Sofosbuvir approved for treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), the first HCV nucleotide analogue and the first drug approved for interferon-free treatment

9 December 1979: Global Commission for Certification of Smallpox Eradication signed document formally certifying smallpox eradication

15 December 1955: Crystallisation of poliovirus by Fred Schaffer and Carlton Schwerdt, the first animal virus to be crystallised

15 December 1967: Infectious phi X 174 synthesised by Arthur Kornberg and coworkers, the first synthetic virus

18 December 1908: Poliovirus discovered by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper

25 December 1982: Lambda phage (plaques pictured) sequenced by Fred Sanger and coworkers

28 December 1936: Scrapie shown to be transmissible, the first demonstration for a prion disease

29 December 1926: Thomas Milton Rivers proposed that viruses are obligate parasites