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Yaba-like disease virus

Taxonomy pass, October 2026

ICTV species Yatapoxvirus tanapox, family Poxviridae. What it is, and what exists against it.

At a glance

AbbreviationYLDV, TANV
ICTV speciesYatapoxvirus tanapox
FamilyPoxviridae
Baltimore classI — dsDNA
Human infectionHuman infection recorded; pattern not classified

Also called: tanapox virus; Yatapoxvirus tanapox

Varidnaviria › Nucleocytoviricota › Pokkesviricetes › Chitovirales › Poxviridae › Yatapoxvirus

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.

RealmVaridnaviria
KingdomBamfordvirae
PhylumNucleocytoviricota
ClassPokkesviricetes
OrderChitovirales
FamilyPoxviridae
SubfamilyChordopoxvirinae
GenusYatapoxvirus
ICTV identifierICTV19710291
NCBI taxon3433538
Exemplar isolateAJ293568

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.

Approval status is not a treatment recommendation. Dosing and eligibility are on the label and in national guidelines. This page does not give medical advice and does not render dosing. A development stage is not a measure of how well something works.

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Cite this page. Yaba-like disease 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/viruses/yaba-like-disease-virus.html

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