Portal:Viruses/Did you know/10
- ...that infectious salmon anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon (pictured) which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland?
- ...that William Close, the physician father of actress Glenn Close, played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976?
- ...that the bird flu pre-pandemic vaccine Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?
- ...that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word "condom" on Iranian national television?
- ...that the history of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865, the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?