Microbiology
🦠Viruses
Submicroscopic infectious agents that replicate only inside living cells. Not technically alive by most definitions.
Source: Wikipedia💡If you lined up all viruses in the ocean end to end, they'd stretch 200 million light years.
44 microbes
🦠 sars-cov-2🦠 sars-cov-1🦠 mers-cov🦠 influenza a🦠 influenza b🦠 h5n1 bird flu🦠 hiv-1🦠 hiv-2🦠 htlv-1🦠 ebola virus🦠 marburg virus🦠 dengue virus🦠 zika virus🦠 hepatitis c virus🦠 west nile virus🦠 yellow fever virus🦠 measles virus🦠 mumps virus🦠 respiratory syncytial virus🦠 nipah virus🦠 rabies virus🦠 rubella virus🦠 chikungunya virus🦠 poliovirus🦠 rhinovirus🦠 hepatitis a virus🦠 norovirus🦠 rotavirus🦠 hantavirus🦠 herpes simplex 1🦠 herpes simplex 2🦠 varicella-zoster virus🦠 epstein-barr virus🦠 cytomegalovirus🦠 variola virus🦠 monkeypox virus🦠 vaccinia virus🦠 human papillomavirus🦠 adenovirus🦠 hepatitis b virus🦠 parvovirus b19🦠 t4 phage🦠 lambda phage🦠 phi x 174
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