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1/ There are over 21 families of viruses. Each of these families will have many strains of viruses within them. Just the Herpes virus has 8 different strains within its family. Others like Flavivirus has strains like Dengue, Zika, West Nile and Yellow Fever.
2/ Other then classifying viruses by their family, we can classify them by their genetic makeup. There are 7 different classes of viral genomes. They are classified using the Baltimore scale shown below. 
