Viral Diseases - RETROVIRUSES

The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs)-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HAIDS pandemic originated from lentiviruses of nonhuman primates (thus qualifying as a zoonosis) that moved into humans in Africa. The HAIDS patients eventually die of opportunistic infections, all potentially zoonotic. The HAIDS infection remained parochial, first endemically and then epidemically, until the African urbanization that occurred in each of the countries postindependence. The latter included wars and the massive movement of soldiers (virologically naive) from the American continent to Africa and back. The HAIDS viral ecology coincided with African swine fever (ASF) in the Americas. Haiti became the focal point for both infections. Some infected Haitians also became, together with some infected drug addicts in the United States, a source of contaminated human blood for transfusions and production of plasma derivatives. 
 

California Encephalitis La Crosse Encephalitis	Herpesviruses	Rabies
Contagious Ecthyma	Influenza	Retroviruses
Cytomegalovirus Disease	Kyasanur Forest Disease	Rift Valley Fever
Dengue	Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis	St. Louis Encephalitis
Ebola	Marburg Virus	Tanapox
Equine Encephalitides	Measles	Yabapox
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome	Monkey pox	Yellow Fever
Hemorrhagic Fever With Renal Syndrome	Newcastle Disease
Hepatitis A	Other hemorrhagic fevers