The Flaviviridae family.

Yellow fever, also known as the American Plague or Black Vomit, belongs to a family called "Flaviviridae" as a single stranded RNA virus.

The family classifciation that the West Nile Virus falls under is Flaviviridae. This is a mosquito born virus that has been wide-spread amongst humans and horses.

Viral hemorrhagic fevers which are a diverse group of animal and human illnesses in which fever and hemorrhage are caused by a viral infection. They may be caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the families Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, and Rhabdoviridae (according to Wikipedia).

Coquillettidia fuscopennata

Why do people answer questions they clearly know nothing about? This is the name of a mosquito, and not even the right one.

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According to "The Dictionary of Virology" by Brian Mahy, the scientific name for yellow fever is "Flavivirus febricis". its the Flaviviridae family (includes flavivirus, hepacivirus, and pestivirus. -Kiera