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Rhinovirus

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Droplet, direct contact, or fomites
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Common cold

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Enterovirus (Poliovirus)

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Fecal-Oral
(Ingestion of contaminated food or water)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Poliomyelitis (polio)

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Hepatitis A Virus

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Fecal-Oral
(Ingestion of contaminated food or water)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Hepatitis A

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Norovirus

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Fecal-Oral 
(Ingestion of contaminated food or water)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Viral gastroenteritis
           - Diarrhea, and vomiting
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Rotavirus (Reovirus)

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Fecal-Oral 
(Ingestion of contaminated food or water)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Viral gastroenteritis
           - Diarrhea, and vomiting
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Adenovirus

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Droplet, direct contact, or fomites
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Acute Respiratory Infections
↣ Pharyngo-conjunctivitis

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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

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(NAKED)
Mode of Transmission: Sexual contact
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Genital warts
  ↣ Cervical Cancer
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Mumps Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: 
Exposure to contaminated saliva
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Mumps
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Measles Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Measles (Rubeola)

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Rubella Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ German measles (Rubella)

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Rabies Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: From saliva of an infected animal via a bite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Rabies

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Influenza Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Influenza (flu)
↣ Protein spikes change due to antigenic shift and drift
↣ Neuraminidase spikes and Hemagglutinin (H5N1,
H1N1)

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Ebola Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Contact with bodily fluid, especially blood
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Ebola hemorrhagic fever

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Hantavirus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of dried mouse urine, feces, or saliva
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

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Coronavirus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ SARS
↣ Respiratory Infections

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Herpes Simplex Virus

HHV1, HHV2

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: 
HHV1 - When a virus from a person with active lesions gains access to oral mucosa of a healthy person
HHV2 - Sexual Contact
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 HHV1 
  ↣ Most oral herpes cases
HHV2
  ↣ Most genital herpes cases
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Varicellovirus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Exposure to respiratory secretions
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Chickenpox
↣ Shingles

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Sexual contact, exposure during birth, exposure to contaminated blood
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Cytomegaly

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Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Exposure to contaminated saliva
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Burkitt’s Lymphoma
↣ Mononucleosis

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Variola Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Inhalation of respiratory droplets or dried crusts from the skin
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Small Pox

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Sexual contact, intravenous drug abuse
- Is a Retrovirus:
Uses reverse transcriptase (RNA –>DNA)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ AIDS

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Hepatitis B Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission:
Sexual contact, exposure to blood, contaminated needles
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Hepatitis B

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Parvovirus B19

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Respiratory secretions
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Erythema infectiosum (Fifth’s Disease)

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Hepatitis C

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Sexual contact, contaminated needles
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Hepatitis C

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West Nile Virus

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(ENVELOPED)
Mode of Transmission: Mosquito vector
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ West Nile Encephalitis

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