Portal:Viruses/Did you know/27




 * ...that the greenbug (pictured) is the vector of several plant viruses?
 * ...that during the West African Ebola virus epidemic as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?
 * ...that in 1978, populations of the gulf sea star in the Gulf of California were devastated by starfish wasting disease and had not fully recovered twenty years later?
 * ...that virologist Stephen Straus, first head of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, said he did not use alternative medicine?
 * ...that Looking for Madonna, meant to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Papua, used shots of a green bra to symbolise sex?