Discussion»Questions»Health and Wellness» What do virus and infections get out of killing their prey....? Surely to keep them alive to feed of them makes more sense...
They just don't know any better. Likewise mankind has been killing the life sustaining planet earth but at least finally there are some who are making awareness and trying to do something about it.
That's so true....I just can't get my head around why kill when you don't need to and just live in your host what happen these viruses when the host dies and rots away to nothing....?
It is a natural constant that the one common purpose intrinsic to all forms of life is to propagate (reproduce itself), but none, other than [most] humans, are capable of contemplating their own death or extinction.
Right. The one imperative in all life is to survive, no thought is required. Relatively few life forms, and certainly not viruses, are even capable of reasoning.
They may have a forms of communication that vastly differ from what we as humans use to communicate with each other or with other species. It’s also possible that humans do not know or do not understand that communication is taking place with other species. ~
Now that’s thinking! We need to get some grant money into BH Wilson’s hands immediately! Someone call the American Cancer Society, the CDC, Johns Hopkins University, and the Mayo Clinic stat! ~
It’s not the virus itself that does the killing—it’s our bodies reacting to it and throwing everything out of whack. We actually kill ourselves in reaction to the foreign thing in our system. The virus is just trying to survive.
How strange nature is sometimes...how on earth do these bugs work things out or is it just trial and error over billions of years of Everloution and constant mutations
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