Viruses: Illnesses You Do Not Want to Get


You guys ever heard of viruses? You guys think that they can get into your body and infect you just like bacteria but they don't. In fact, I'm gonna tell you guys about the information about the virus.


 First of all let me tell you what the virus is, viruses are biological agents that have a protein coat called a capsid. They are also smaller than a microrganism. How they affect the living organisms is that they can get into your skin then they can go deeper  and unlock it's way inside the cell and control the cell's mechanisms. Then the organisms get sick.



virus infecting cell





How viruses multiply is as I said using the cell's mechanisms. But that's not all, First they have to inject the strand of DNA and RNA to the organelles of the cell. Then they use the cell's organelles to replicate themselves.





                                      list of viral illnesses


Now let me explain what active and latent viruses are and how they are different. Active viruses are viruses that exist in an active state and cause disease when they get into your system and latent viruses exist in an inactive state once they get in to your body and don't cause disease, although, they will do years later. LINK


Some viral related illnesses besides the picture that I just posted above are AIDS, ear infections, and tonsillitis.LINK










Now let me explain to you guys who Edward Jenner is, Edward Jenner  is a physician who invented the very first vaccine in 1796 for smallpox, A disease that is still feared back then. Speaking of vaccines, vaccines are a weaked form of a virus that is used to make the immune system learn how to combat the virus kinda like a training session.























Fun Facts:

• The latin word virus means slimy liquid or poison
• Their are a million virus particles in a milliliter per seawater.
• Walter Reed discovered the first virus in 1901
• They are sometimes covered in a fatty coating

see ya guys later.