STAT3 and infection: Beyond the aforementioned viruses, STAT3 can also effectively influence the infection and pathogenic processes of other single-stranded positive-sense RNA viruses, including HEV, enterovirus 71 (EV71), and grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV), which belongs to Hepeviridae (Wang and Meng, 2021), Picornaviridae (Tang et al., 2014), Nodaviridae (Vázquez-Salgado et al., 2024), respectively.