Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Microbiology 2008-3289 11 2 2019 05 30 85 89 EN Jila Yavarian Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Nazanin Zahra Shafiei-Jandaghi Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Talat Mokhtari-Azad Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2019 05 11 2019 05 24 Floods are one of the natural disasters occurring worldwide which have a massive range of health impacts. In addition to immediate dangers such as drowning, floods can increase the transmission of some communicable diseases. Up to now there was no report of viral infection outbreaks after 2019 spring floods in Iran. This review explains the possible viral infections which may occur during or after floods. https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/2127 https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/download/2127/1154