Portal:Viruses/Did you know/27

Two greenbugs (Schizaphis graminum)

...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?