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 #### The VIRION database was built by, and is curated by, an interdisciplinary team of virologists, ecologists, and data scientists as part of the [Verena Consortium](https://www.viralemergence.org/), an effort to predict which viruses could infect humans, which animals host them, and where they could someday emerge.
 
-VIRION is the most comprehensive database of its kind, drawing data from scientific literature and online databases, and is updated automatically with new data. Today, it includes over 2.8 million interactions that capture roughly 25% of known mammal diversity, 10% of bird diversity, and 6% of total vertebrate diversity. Unlike many other databases, VIRION has undergone a taxonomic reconciliaton process using a backbone provided by [NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi), with a total (at last count) of 3,787 valid vertebrate host species and 9,003 valid viruses, of which 1,658 are ICTV-ratified valid names. 
+VIRION is the most comprehensive database of its kind, drawing data from scientific literature and online databases, and is updated automatically with new data. Today, it includes half a million records that capture the viromes of one in every four mammals, one in every ten birds, and roughly 6% of vertebrates. Unlike many other databases, VIRION has undergone a fully-consistent taxonomic reconciliaton process using a backbone provided by [NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi).
 
 VIRION is part of an ongoing effort to build an open data ecosystem in viral ecology, and has been released prior to a preprint, publication, or peer-review process. As such, we strongly discourage the reproduction of the data in other databases at this time.