Portal:Viruses/Did you know/35

...that besides feeding on soybeans and transmitting viruses to them, a soybean aphid (pictured) can also injure the plant by interfering with its photosynthetic pathways?
...that transmission of COVID-19 is known to occur through respiratory droplets, contaminated surfaces, kissing, and aerosol-generating medical procedures?
...that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China?
...that the Global Certification Commission has certified the eradication of wild poliovirus in five of the six WHO regions, with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean Region?
...that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus, the most prevalent cause of the common cold?