Portal:Viruses/Did you know/22


 * ...that the groundnut rosette virus, which causes serious damage to peanut crops in Africa (plant pictured), is spread by the groundnut aphid?
 * ...that Oguntola Sapara infiltrated and exposed a secret society in Nigeria that was deliberately spreading smallpox?
 * ...that with the 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal, 16,000 birds were destroyed in Itahar, but health workers retreated from villages that refused to kill their birds?
 * ...that Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings, SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis?
 * ...that Sounds of HIV sets the genome of the HIV/AIDS virus to music?