Table 1. Viral Zoonotic Outbreaks since 1993.^*.

Year Identified	Pathogen or Disease	Location Where Disease First Described	Mortality Percentage	Viral Category	Source
1993	Sin Nombre virus†	New Mexico	About 35	Bunyavirus	Rodents, especially deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus)
1999	Nipah virus	Malaysia	About 70	Paramyxovirus	Reservoir: fruit bats Vector: pigs, contaminated fruit
1999	West Nile virus	Uganda	<1	Flavivirus	Reservoir: birds Vector: culex mosquitoes
2002	SARS-CoV-1	China	9	Coronavirus	Reservoir: horseshoe bats Vector: palm civets
2009	Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus	Mexico	2	Orthomyxovirus	Swine
2012	Middle East respiratory syndrome virus	Saudi Arabia and Jordan	30	Coronavirus	Reservoir: bats Vector: dromedaries
2012	Acute flaccid myelitis	St. Louis	<1	Nonpolio enteroviruses	Reservoir: humans Fecal–oral spread
2013	Ebola virus	Uganda and Tanzania	50	Filovirus	Reservoir: monkeys Vector: nonhuman primates
2015	Zika virus	Uganda	8	Flavivirus	Reservoir: monkeys Vector: aedes mosquitoes
2019	SARS-CoV-2	China	<2	Coronavirus	Bats

^*SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 denote severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 and 2.

^†Sin Nombre virus is the causative agent of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.