Viruses That Cause Human Disease

VIRUSES

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Viruses are responsible for many common human diseases, such as colds, flu, diarrhea, chicken pox, measles, and mumps. Some viral diseases—such as rabies, hemorrhagic fevers, encephalitis, polio, yellow fever, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)—can result in death. German measles and cytomegalovirus can cause serious abnormalities or death in unborn infants. Of the estimated 1000 to 1500 types of viruses, approximately 250 cause disease in humans.

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Virus

Disease

Adenovirus	Common cold
Bunyavirus	Hantaan La Crosse Sin Nombre	Kidney failure Encephalitis (brain infection) Lung syndrome
Calicivirus	Norwalk	Gastroenteritis (diarrhea, vomiting)
Coronavirus	Corona	Common cold
Filovirus	Ebola Marburg	Hemorrhagic fever Hemorrhagic fever
Flavivirus	Hepatitis C (non-A, non-B) Yellow fever	Hepatitis Hepatitis, hemorrhage
Hepadnavirus	Hepatitis B virus (HBV)	Hepatitis, liver carcinoma
Herpesvirus	Cytomegalovirus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Herpes simplex type 1 Herpes simplex type 2 Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) Varicella-zoster	Birth defects Mononucleosis, nasopharyngeal carcinoma Cold sores Genital lesions Kaposi's sarcoma Chicken pox, shingles
Orthomyxovirus	Influenza types A and B	Flu
Papovavirus	Human papillomavirus (HPV)	Warts, cervical carcinoma
Picornavirus	Coxsackie virus Echovirus Hepatitis A Poliovirus Rhinovirus	Myocarditis (heart muscle infection) Meningitis Infectious hepatitis Poliomyelitis Common cold
Paramyxovirus	Measles Mumps Parainfluenza	Measles Mumps Common cold, ear infections
Parvovirus	B19	Fifth disease, chronic anemia
Poxvirus	Orthopoxvirus	Smallpox (eradicated)
Reovirus	Rotavirus	Diarrhea
Retrovirus	Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I)	Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Adult T-cell leukemia, lymphoma, neurologic disease
Rhabdovirus	Rabies	Rabies
Togavirus	Eastern equine encephalomyelitis Rubella	Encephalitis Rubella, birth defects