AhR has been reported to be associated with the infection of many viruses, including Zika virus (Marim et al., 2021), human cytomegalovirus (Bodaghi et al., 1999), SARS-CoV-2 virus (Shi et al., 2023), measles virus 40, and HIV (Zhou et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene AHR and infection.