Virus

1000 BC T0 1796 

Small Pox in China (1000 BC) To Edward Jenner Small pox vaccine (1796)

Bjernick (1897) coined the Latin name Virus meaning Poison 

Took 52 years to Confirm the presence of Virus particles

Adolf Mayer To WM Stanley

Viruses

History Of Virology 

First Plant Virus:  Tobaco Mosaic Virus (1897)

First Animal Virus: Foot and Mouth disease (1898)

First Human Virus:  Yellow Fever (1911)

First Tumour Virus: Rous Sarcoma Virus (1915)

1950-1983: Polio Virus To HIV

1970 and 1983: Nobel Prize in Virology

Snapshot 

Starts with Tobaco Mosaic Virus in 1898

2016 saw Zika