Portal:Viruses/Did you know/10

Atlantic salmon

...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?