Common Routes of Human Pathogenic Viral Transmissions ROUTE OF SOURCE/ MODE OF EXAMPLES/VIRUSES ENTRY TRANSMISSION Blood Insect bite Arboviruses, dengue virus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, encephalitis causing rbi Genital Genital secretions Hepatitis B virus, HiV, herpes simplex virus Urine Urine Polyomavirus(BK virus) e Conjunctival Adenovirus, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus 1 Zoonotic Animal bite Rabies Arthropod bite Arboviruses Mammals excreta Arenavirus. hantavirus filovirus Chicken, wild birds-aerosol Avian influenza virus(bird flu, H5N1) dropletCommon Routes of Human Pathogenic Viral Transmissions ROUTE OF SOURCE/ MODE OF EXAMPLES/VIRUSES ENTRY TRANSMISSION Blood Insect bite Arboviruses, dengue virus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, encephalitis causing arboviruses Genital Genital secretions Hepatitis B virus, HIV, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus Urine Urine Pol i ( i) lyomavirus (BK virus) Eye Conjunctival Adenovirus, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus 1 Zoonotic Animal bite Rabies Arthropod bite Arboviruses Mammals excreta Mammals excreta Arenavirus hantavirus filovirus Arenavirus, hantavirus, filovirus Chicken, wild birds–aerosol droplets Avian influenza virus (bird flu, H5N1)