A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...
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advisory organizations and developers of anti-virus software compile and publish lists of viruses. When a new virus appears, the rush begins to identify and...
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genus Flavivirus, which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly species...
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Eastern equine encephalitis (redirect from Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus)
equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is closely related to Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and western equine encephalitis virus. The incubation period...
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HIV (redirect from Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency...
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monkeypox virus (MPV, MPXV, or hMPXV) is a species of double-stranded DNA virus that causes mpox disease in humans and other mammals. It is a zoonotic virus belonging...
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"infected" with a computer virus, a metaphor derived from biological viruses. Computer viruses generally require a host program. The virus writes its own code...
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Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular...
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VirusTotal is a website created by the Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas. Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google in September 2012...
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helper virus is a virus that allows an otherwise-deficient coinfecting virus to replicate. These can be naturally occurring as with Hepatitis D virus, which...
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common viruses in humans. EBV is a double-stranded DNA virus. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is the first identified oncogenic virus, that is a virus that can...
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Rabies (category Slow virus diseases)
the virus must travel along peripheral nerves to reach the central nervous system. Rabies is caused by lyssaviruses, including the rabies virus and Australian...
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Smallpox (redirect from Smallpox virus)
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally...
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Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2), also known by their taxonomic names Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, are two members...
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Nipah virus is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high mortality rate (40-75%)...
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a contagious virus that causes infections...
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Influenza A virus (IAV) is the only species of the genus Alphainfluenzavirus of the virus family Orthomyxoviridae. It is a pathogen with strains that...
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COVID-19 (redirect from Corona Virus Disease 2019)
Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Most scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus entered into human populations through natural zoonosis, similar to the...
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Mpox (category Virus-related cutaneous conditions)
The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus in the genus Orthopoxvirus. The variola virus, which causes smallpox, is also in this...
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Ebola (redirect from Ebola Virus)
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by...
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Zika virus (ZIKV; pronounced /ˈziːkə/ or /ˈzɪkə/) is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, such...
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Look up Chinese virus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinese virus or China virus may refer to: A term for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 that is generally...
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Oropouche fever (redirect from Oropouche virus disease)
Tobago. Oropouche fever is caused by the Oropouche virus (OROV), of the Bunyavirales order of viruses. Oropouche fever is endemic to the Amazon basin, with...
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The BK virus, also known as Human polyomavirus 1, is a member of the polyomavirus family. Past infection with the BK virus is widespread, but significant...
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SARS-CoV-2 (redirect from Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus)
COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV),...
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Antivirus software (redirect from Anti-virus)
was actually a virus itself specifically designed to remove the Creeper virus. The Creeper virus was followed by several other viruses. The first known...
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Rhinovirus (redirect from Rhino virus)
romanized: rhinos "of the nose", and the Latin: vīrus) is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the genus Enterovirus in the family...
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A respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, or RSV vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus. RSV affects an estimated 64 million...
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Coronavirus (redirect from Corona virus)
Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections...
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Virus A series Virus B series Virus C series Virus TI / TI2 series The Access Virus is a virtual analog synthesizer made by the German company Access...
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