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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
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Rhinovirus

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

#2
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Enterovirus (Poliovirus)

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

#3
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Hepatitis A Virus

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

#4
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Norovirus

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

#5
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Rotavirus (Reovirus)

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

#6
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Adenovirus

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

#7
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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

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

#8
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Mumps Virus

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

#9
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Measles Virus

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

#10
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Rubella Virus

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

#11
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Rabies Virus

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

#12
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Influenza Virus

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

#13
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Ebola Virus

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

#14
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Hantavirus

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

#15
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Coronavirus

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

#16
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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 ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HHV1 ↣ Most oral herpes cases HHV2 ↣ Most genital herpes cases

#17
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Varicellovirus

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

#18
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

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

#19
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Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

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

#20
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Variola Virus

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

#21
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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) —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ AIDS

#22
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Hepatitis B Virus

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

#23
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Parvovirus B19

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

#24
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Hepatitis C

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