Viral diseases

Molluscum contagiosum (MC), sometimes called water warts, is a viral infection of the skin and occasionally of the mucous membranes.

Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease (Aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids.

Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus.

Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest) is a highly contagious disease of swine (Old World and New World pigs).

A wart is a small, rough growth resembling a cauliflower or a solid blister.

Shingles, also known as zoster, herpes zoster, or zona, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters involving a limited area.

Aujeszky's disease, in the USA usually called pseudorabies, is a viral disease in swine that has been endemic in most parts of the world.

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver.

Yellow fever is an acute viral disease.

Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and some other species of even-toed ungulates, including buffaloes, large antelope and deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs.

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), also known as camel flu, is a viral respiratory infection caused by the MERS-coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Marburg virus disease (MVD; formerly Marburg hemorrhagic fever) is a severe illness of humans and non-human primates caused by either of the two marburgviruses, Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV).

Meningoencephalitis (/mɪˌnɪŋɡoʊɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtᵻs, -ˌnɪndʒoʊ-, -ən-, -ˌkɛ-/; from Greek: meninges- membranes; enkephalos brain; and -itis inflammation) is a medical condition that simultaneously resembles both meningitis, which is an infection or inflammation of the meninges, and encephalitis, which is an infection or inflammation of the brain.

Herpes labialis, also called cold sores among other names, is a type of herpes simplex occurring on the lip, i.

Herpes simplex (Greek: ἕρπης herpēs, "creeping" or "latent") is a viral disease caused by the herpes simplex virus.

Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus and first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria.

Encephalitis lethargica or von Economo disease is an atypical form of encephalitis.

The viral hemorrhagic (or haemorrhagic) fevers (VHFs) are a diverse group of animal and human illnesses in which fever and hemorrhage are caused by a viral infection.

(For other uses of the word mumps, see Mumps (disambiguation).) Mumps, also known as epidemic parotitis, is a viral disease caused by the mumps virus.

Genital warts are symptoms of a contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by some types of human papillomavirus (HPV).

Pogosta disease is a viral disease, established to be identical with other diseases, Karelian fever and Ockelbo disease.

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tick-borne viral disease that is endemic in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia.

Zika fever (also known as Zika virus disease and simply Zika) is an infectious disease caused by the Zika virus.

Infectious mononucleosis (IM), also known as mono, or glandular fever, is an infection commonly caused by the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV).

Saint Louis encephalitis is a disease caused by the Mansonia pseudotitillans mosquito borne Saint Louis encephalitis virus.

Hepatitis B is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) which affects the liver.

Rotavirus enteritis is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children.

Adenovirus infections most commonly cause illness of the respiratory system; however, depending on the infecting serotype, they may also cause various other illnesses and presentations.

Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines are vaccines that prevent infection by certain types of human papillomavirus.

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease that can cause mild to severe symptoms.

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral infectious disease involving the central nervous system.

Canine distemper (sometimes termed hardpad disease in canine) is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of animal families, including domestic and wild species of dogs, coyotes, foxes, pandas, wolves, ferrets, skunks, raccoons, and large cats, as well as pinnipeds, some primates, and a variety of other species.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is one of two potentially fatal syndromes of zoonotic origin caused by species of hantavirus.

The Bas-Congo virus (BASV), named after the former DRC province of Bas-Congo (now Kongo Central), in which it was first discovered, is a novel rhabdovirus associated with a small outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Mangala village in 2009.

Ross River virus (RRV) is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific.

Carrizal virus (CARV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the Bunyaviridae family.

Catacamas virus is a single-stranded, enveloped novel RNA virus species in the hantavirus genus of the Bunyaviridae family isolated in Oryzomys couesi near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras.

Choclo virus (CHOV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus.

Tanganya virus (TGNV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus species of the genus hantavirus in the Bunyaviridae family.

Gou virus (GOUV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped novel RNA hantavirus.

Imjin virus (MJNV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus of the hantavirus genus in the Bunyaviridae family.

Limestone Canyon virus (LSC) is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic Hantavirus that is genetically similar to Sin Nombre virus which causes Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in humans.

Magboi virus (MGBV) is a novel, bat-borne Hantavirus discovered in a slit-faced bat trapped near the Magboi Stream in eastern Sierra Leone in 2011.

Monongahela virus (MGLV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA Hantavirus species of zoonotic origin that causes Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Serang virus (SERV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, novel RNA hantavirus.

Andes virus (ANDV) is a hantavirus, which, in South America, is a major causative agent of Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS or HPS).

Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV), also known as Dobrava virus, is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus species of Old World Hantavirus.

El Moro Canyon virus (EMCV) is a single-stranded, negative sense RNA virus of the hantavirus genera.

Hantaan virus (HTNV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus species of Old World Hantavirus.

Isla Vista virus (ILV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the Bunyaviridae family.

Khabarovsk virus (KBR) is a novel hantavirus in the Bunyaviridae family isolated from Microtus fortis discovered in far-east Russia.

Prospect Hill virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense Hantaan-like zoonotic RNA virus isolated from meadow voles and microtine and other cricetid rodents in the United States.

Saaremaa virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense, RNA virus species of Hantavirus that causes a milder form of Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

Sangassou virus (SANGV) is single-stranded, negative-sense DNA virus species of the genus hantavirus in the Bunyaviridae family.

Thottapalayam virus (TMPV) is single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus species of the genus hantavirus in the Bunyaviridae family.

Topografov virus is an enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus species of the genus hantavirus in the Bunyaviridae family.

Tula virus (TULV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus species of Hantavirus first isolated from a European common vole (Microtus arvalis) found in Central Russia.

Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), also called HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy (HAM) or HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a medical condition that causes weakness, muscle spasms, and sensory disturbance by Human T-lymphotropic virus resulting in paraparesis, weakness of the legs.

Henipavirus is a genus of RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing five established species.

Reticuloendotheliosis (RE) designates a group of pathologic syndromes caused by the reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) group of avian retroviruses.

Erythema infectiosum or fifth disease is one of several possible manifestations of infection by parvovirus B19.

Rotavirus vaccine is a vaccine used to protect against rotavirus infections.

Kunjin virus (KUNV) is a zoonotic virus of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus.

Encephalitis is a sudden onset inflammation of the brain.

Lloviu virus (LLOV) is an uncultured virus distantly related to the well-known pathogens Ebola virus and Marburg virus.

Ross River Fever is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by infection with the Ross River virus.

Neonatal infections are infections of the neonate (newborn) during the neonatal period or first four weeks after birth.

The Flexal mammarenavirus (also known as the Flexal virus or FLEV, and previously known by the laboratory code BeAn 293022) is a mammarenavirus: an arenavirus with a mammalian host.

Tremovirus, also known epidemic tremor, is a virus genus belonging to the Picornaviridae family.

Upper respiratory tract infections (URI or URTI) are illnesses caused by an acute infection which involves the upper respiratory tract including the nose, sinuses, pharynx or larynx.

Qalyub virus (QYBV) is a nairovirus discovered in a rat's nest in a tomb wall in the Egyptian town of Qalyub (Arabic: قليوب‎‎) in 1952.

Melaka virus (MELV) is a novel bat-borne virus of the Pteropine orthoreovirus species.

Borna disease is an infectious neurological syndrome of warm-blooded animals, caused by Borna disease viruses 1 and 2 (BoDV-1/2), both of which are members of the species Mammalian 1 bornavirus.

A herpetic whitlow is a lesion (whitlow) on a finger or thumb caused by the herpes simplex virus.

Menangle virus is a virus that infects pigs, humans and bats.

Mayaro virus disease is a mosquitoborne zoonotic pathogen endemic to certain humid forests of tropical South America.

Chandipura virus (CHPV) is a member of the Rhabdoviridae family that is associated with an encephalitic illness in humans.