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?