What this page does and does not yet contain. This is the taxonomy pass. Every virus below carries its ICTV classification and the evidence that it infects people. Vaccines, antivirals, antibodies and disease-burden figures have not been searched yet — that is why the last column says so, rather than being blank or saying “none”. An empty cell would claim that nothing exists; this claims only that nobody has looked.
Taxonomy is copied by script from the ICTV Virus Metadata Resource and is never hand-edited. How a virus qualifies for this list, and which viruses are deliberately left out, is on the methods page.
Where this family sits
Ranks above family are shared by every member, copied from ICTV MSL41.v1 / VMR_MSL41.v1.20260729.xlsx.
| Realm | Varidnaviria |
|---|---|
| Kingdom | Bamfordvirae |
| Phylum | Nucleocytoviricota |
| Class | Pokkesviricetes |
| Order | Chitovirales |
| Family | Poxviridae |
Genome type in this family: I — dsDNA.
Members with evidence of human infection
12 of this family’s species qualify for the index. Species with no human sequence evidence, and the commensal families left out altogether, are explained on the methods page.
| Virus | Family | Baltimore class | ICTV species | Human infection | Countermeasures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akhmeta virusAKHV; Orthopoxvirus akhmetapox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus akhmetapox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Camelpox virusCMPV; Orthopoxvirus camelpox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus camelpox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Canarypox virusCPV; Avipoxvirus canarypox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Avipoxvirus canarypox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Cowpox virusCPV; Orthopoxvirus cowpox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus cowpox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Molluscum contagiosum virusMCV; Molluscipoxvirus molluscum | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Molluscipoxvirus molluscum | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Monkeypox virusMPV; Orthopoxvirus monkeypox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus monkeypox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Vaccine: Approved |
| Nile crocodilepox virusNCPV; Crocodylidpoxvirus nilecrocodilepox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Crocodylidpoxvirus nilecrocodilepox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Orf virusORFV; Parapoxvirus orf | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Parapoxvirus orf | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Pseudocowpox virusPCPV; Parapoxvirus pseudocowpox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Parapoxvirus pseudocowpox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Vaccinia virusVACV; vaccinia virus VV; Orthopoxvirus vaccinia | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus vaccinia | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Variola virusVARV; Orthopoxvirus variola | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Orthopoxvirus variola | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Vaccine: Approved |
| Yaba-like disease virusYLDV; TANV; tanapox virus; Yatapoxvirus tanapox | Poxviridae | I — dsDNA | Yatapoxvirus tanapox | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
Countermeasures across this family
Vaccines, antivirals and antibodies have not been searched for this family yet. When they are, this section will carry the family-level summary that makes broad-spectrum candidates visible. It is empty because the work is outstanding, not because nothing exists.