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What are the types of viruses?
Experts group viruses into categories — like family and genus — based on similar features, like size, shape and the type of genetic material they carry. Some common types of viruses that you might hear about include:

Influenza viruses.

Human herpes viruses.

Coronavirus.

Human papillomaviruses.

Enteroviruses.

Flaviviruses.

Orthopoxviruses.

Hepatitis viruses.

There are also some viruses that have unique qualities, like retroviruses and oncoviruses.

Influenza viruses (Orthomyxoviridae)
The Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses includes influenza A and B, which cause the flu. Strains of influenza A also cause avian flu (“bird flu”) and swine flu (H1N1).


Human herpesvirus (Herpesviridae)
Herpesviridae is a large family of viruses. They cause several types of illnesses, like oral and genital herpes, chickenpox, shingles, Epstein-Barr and cytomegalovirus (CMV).


Coronaviruses
Coronaviruses are a subfamily of viruses. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is probably the most well-known coronavirus. But other types of coronaviruses cause mild illnesses, like a cold.


Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Human papillomaviruses are part of the Papillomaviridae family of viruses. They cause warts. Some types of HPV can lead to cancers.


Enteroviruses
Enterovirus is a genus (one level smaller than the group called a “family”) of viruses that infect your intestinal tract. Types of enteroviruses cause polio and hand, foot and mouth disease.


Flaviviruses
Viruses in this genus are often spread by mosquitoes. They cause illnesses like Zika, West Nile, dengue fever and yellow fever.


Orthopoxviruses
Viruses in the genus Orthopoxvirus cause blistering rashes. Mpox and smallpox are orthopoxviruses.


Hepatitis viruses
Though they don’t all belong to the same family or genus, hepatitis viruses all infect your liver. Hepatitis A, B and C are the most common.


Retroviruses
Retroviruses are RNA viruses that use special proteins to make DNA. The virus then inserts its DNA into yours. Your cells read the viral DNA as if it were its own instructions. HIV and human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) are retroviruses.


Oncoviruses
Oncoviruses are viruses that can cause cancer. Viruses that have been linked to specific cancers include:


HPV.
Epstein-Barr.

HIV.
Hepatitis B and C.

HTLV-1.
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8).


Satellite viruses
Satellite viruses can’t reproduce without other, “helper” viruses. Most satellite viruses are found in plants.

Bacteriophages
Also just called “phages,” bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. Scientists are studying bacteriophage therapy as a potential way to treat bacterial infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.

The information stored in the virus — its genetic material — is either DNA or RNA. DNA is like the instruction manual for how to build the virus. RNA is like the translation of the instructions in a language that the cell machinery can read and make into proteins. Viral DNA or RNA can be:



Positive-sense or negative-sense. RNA that’s positive-sense can be used as instructions to make more virus parts without any additional steps. Negative-sense RNA viruses need special proteins (enzymes) to create positive-sense RNA before viruses can make more copies of themselves. This is also called “plus-strand” (or “positive-strand”) or “minus-sense” (or “negative-strand”). Most DNA viruses are positive-sense.




DNA viruses can have their genetic material in a single string of instructions (ssDNA), or two sets that are paired together (dsDNA). (Human DNA is double-stranded.) RNA viruses are usually single-stranded, though there are some double-stranded RNA viruses.




The structural proteins of a virus make up the capsid, or protective coating. They can also make up the envelope, if there is one, and any structures that stick out from it that help it enter cells (like the spike proteins of coronaviruses).