A fact from Thogotovirus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... 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?
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