Data ICTV MSL41 & NCBI · 31 October 2026 Methods · Changelog · Corrections

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Kimberley virus

Taxonomy pass, October 2026

ICTV species Ephemerovirus kimberley, family Rhabdoviridae. What it is, and what exists against it.

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At a glance

AbbreviationKIMV, MALV
ICTV speciesEphemerovirus kimberley
FamilyRhabdoviridae
Baltimore classV — (−)ssRNA
Human infectionNot known to infect humans

Also called: Malakal virus; Kimberley ephemerovirus; Ephemerovirus kimberley

Riboviria › Negarnaviricota › Monjiviricetes › Mononegavirales › Rhabdoviridae › Ephemerovirus

What it is

Taxonomy copied from ICTV MSL41.v1 / VMR_MSL41.v1.20260729.xlsx. These ranks are not hand-edited; a correction means re-running the fetch against a newer release.

RealmRiboviria
KingdomOrthornavirae
PhylumNegarnaviricota
ClassMonjiviricetes
OrderMononegavirales
FamilyRhabdoviridae
SubfamilyAlpharhabdovirinae
GenusEphemerovirus
ICTV identifierICTV20165135
NCBI taxon1972595
Exemplar isolateJQ941664

Host evidence

Counts of nucleotide records annotated with that host. Evidence of provenance, not a statement of host range.

Where it occurs

Not searched yet. No country-level occurrence data has been curated for this virus. The WHO reported-case data on this site covers a limited set of diseases; a virus outside it gets no map rather than an empty one.

What it does

Not searched yet. Burden, severity and transmissibility figures have not been curated for this virus yet. When they are, each will carry the exact sentence from its source.

Vaccines

Not searched yet. No vaccine for this virus appears in the vaccine pipeline dataset. That dataset tracks candidates and licensed products the site follows; it is not a complete register of every licensed vaccine, so this is not evidence that none exists.

Antivirals

Not searched yet. No US-approved antiviral for this virus was found in the openFDA drug label endpoint. Only US labels were searched, and only drugs the FDA classes as antivirals.

Antibodies and immune globulins

Not searched yet. No US-approved antiviral antibody for this virus was found in the openFDA drug label endpoint.

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Cite this page. Kimberley virus. Vaccine Data Navigator, Open Source Medicine Foundation. Built 31 October 2026 from the ICTV Virus Metadata Resource (MSL41) and NCBI Taxonomy/GenBank. https://vaccinedatanavigator.org/virus-navigator/veterinary/viruses/kimberley-virus.html

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