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r/Virology

22.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 378 upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
22.5Kmembers
378best post
295most comments
84posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

42% 19% 18% 13%
Link 42% Question 19% Image 18% Text 13% Video 6% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Media 19 Discussion 17 Question 10 Journal 5 Image/Video 4 Government 2 Posted Discussion 1 Tested negative 1 Zerg Is Dumb 1 Variant News 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US

↑ 378 💬 30 link 2025

WHO raises Ebola risk level to 'very high' as outbreak spreads

↑ 339 💬 9 link 2026

Why do viruses often come from bats? Here are some possible answers.

↑ 337 💬 46 question 2020

The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence

↑ 247 💬 99 link 2025

US confirms first human death linked to bird flu

↑ 235 💬 23 link 2025

Some basics of virology for non-virologists

↑ 229 💬 26 text 2020

New Coronavirus 'HKU5-CoV-2' Detected: Should We Fear a New Pandemic?

↑ 216 💬 12 link 2025

Why, yes, I am this much of a nerd. Why do you ask?

↑ 190 💬 24 gallery 2020

Surface antigen differentiation in people who don’t ever get the flu?

↑ 189 💬 24 question 2026

A recent painting I completed on the life cycle of Rotavirus.

↑ 168 💬 6 image 2021

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Virology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.