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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?
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