Parasites as viruses are not only responsible for a high rate of human morbidity and mortality but are also responsible for epidemic and pandemics (Choudhary and Dar, 2018). International Committee on Virus Taxonomy (King et al., 2012) have classified

The discovery of novel viruses is of great importance to human health—both in the setting of emerging infectious disease outbreaks and in disease syndromes of unknown etiology. Despite the recent proliferation of many efficient virus discovery methods,

A historic review of the discovery of new viruses leads to reminders of traditions that have evolved over 118 years. One such tradition gives credit for the discovery of a virus to the investigator(s) who not only carried out the seminal experiments

On average, more than two new species of human virus are reported every year. We constructed the cumulative species discovery curve for human viruses going back to 1901. We fitted a statistical model to these data; the shape of the curve strongly suggests