Virology, Emerging Diseases & Vaccines

Viruses and Diseases

According to David Baltimore's grouping of the collection of viruses taking viral genome association into account, an alphavirus is a member of the Togaviridae family of group IV viruses. Filoviridae is the name of the virus family that includes filoviruses, which can cause serious hemorrhagic fever in both humans and nonhuman primates. Picorna viruses have an icosahedral capsid and are positive-stranded RNA infections that are not wrapped. A mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus called West Nile infection belongs to the family Flaviviridae and is a type of flavivirus.

Common viral illnesses include:

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  Chickenpox.


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  Flu (influenza) (influenza)


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  Herpes


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  HIV/AIDS, or human immunodeficiency virus


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  H. papilloma virus (HPV)