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  2. List of virus families and subfamilies - Wikipedia

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    See also Comparison of computer viruses. This is an alphabetical list of biological virus families and subfamilies; it includes those families and subfamilies listed by the ICTV 2023 report. [1] For a list of individual species, see List of virus species. For a list of virus genera, see List of virus genera.

  3. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    5–15 million 27–80% of Mexican population [12] 1545–1548 Mexico 8 Antonine Plague: Smallpox or measles: 5–10 million 25–33% of Roman population [13] 165–180 (possibly up to 190) Roman Empire: 9 1520 Mexico smallpox epidemic: Smallpox 5–8 million 23–37% of Mexican population [12] 1519–1520 Mexico: 11 1957–1958 influenza ...

  4. List of virus species - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all virus species, including satellites and viroids. Excluded are other ranks, and other non-cellular life such as prions. Also excluded are common names and obsolete names for viruses. The taxonomy is taken from ICTV taxonomy 2022 release [1] For a list of virus families and subfamilies, see List of virus families and ...

  5. Virus - Wikipedia

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    A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. [1] Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. [2] [3] Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity.

  6. Social history of viruses - Wikipedia

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    The virus, which only infected humans, probably descended from the poxviruses of rodents. [5] Humans probably came into contact with these rodents, and some people became infected by the viruses they carried. When viruses cross this so-called "species barrier", their effects can be severe, [6] and humans may have had little natural resistance ...

  7. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    November: The term "virus" is re-coined by Frederick B. Cohen in describing self-replicating computer programs. In 1984 Cohen uses the phrase "computer virus" (suggested by his teacher Leonard Adleman) to describe the operation of such programs in terms of "infection". He defines a "virus" as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by ...

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  9. History of virology - Wikipedia

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    The virus was finally isolated by Max Theiler (1899–1972) in 1932 who went on to develop a successful vaccine. [10] By 1928 enough was known about viruses to enable the publication of Filterable Viruses, a collection of essays covering all known viruses edited by Thomas Milton Rivers (1888–1962).