Something about viruses that makes them quite interesting is how they can only survive when there are cells they can infect. They cannot live on their own and so survive through using cells of living organisms. This makes them so powerful because they attack the fundamental structure of a human body: the cells.
Some great resources and articles on the topic:
Virus or Parasite
An article on how much humans are compared to viruses and the promise of it becoming instead a symbiotic parasite.
Even Viruses Catch Viruses
Aha! Fierce fight of the most apt.
Viruses, the Unknown Frontier
A high school student's still to come research on viruses. Useful on its simplicity to explain what a virus is and how it reproduces.
And of course... wikipedia on viruses, cytokine storm, influenza
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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