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In 1988 and 2002, thousands of harbour seals were killed in Europe by phocine distemper virus. [209] Many other viruses, including caliciviruses, herpesviruses, adenoviruses and parvoviruses, circulate in marine mammal populations. [204]
In many places of Asia and Africa, hepatitis B has become endemic. [24] In addition, a person is sometimes infected with both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV, and this population (about 2.7 million) accounts for about 1% of the total HBV infections.
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 ...
Often we just think of a few viruses—influenza, HIV, and now coronaviruses—but viruses are the most plentiful microbes on the planet. Of those, about 320,000 types of viruses infect mammals ...
Polio is an infection caused by a virus that mostly affects children under 5. Most people infected with polio don’t have any symptoms, but it can cause fever, headaches, vomiting and stiffness ...
Liberian Red Cross "burial" team, in Monrovia, Liberia, on October 14, 2014. The worst-ever Ebola epidemic has already claimed more than 4,000 lives, largely in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
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.
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]