Viruses What Are They Really?

Authors note: The purpose of this piece is to tell about viruses and what are they are. How do they affect organisms? And I will explain 2-viruses, also how viruses are helpful and/or harmful to humans.

When you are sick do you ever wonder what bug you have? And what’s really happening to your body? The aches the coughs the chills they are all caused by this little thing called a viruses. There are thousands of viruses in the world and there are many types of viruses some are good and some are bad for the human body.

First of all, not many people really know what a virus is. So let’s talk about what a virus isn’t . A virus is not bacteria or “independently-living organism (Brown).Now for what a virus is, a virus is a non living particle and They attack healthy cells viruses do not have the characteristics of living things they are not able to change food into energy that the body can use. Also a virus can’t live without a “absence of a living cell” (Brown).

Now with a strong definition of what a viruses is you will understand the two more popular viruses a Rhinovirus and a flavirues .A rhinovirus is also known as the west Nile virus. The West Nile Virus is a virus that already has the viruses and if you get bitten by a mosquito you can get the infection. Some symptoms are , headaches, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms may last several weeks these effects may also be permanent (What's West Nile Virus). There Is no way to cure it at this time other than just resting . The second viruses is the flavirues this viruses is also known as a head cold. it’s like a normal cold “coughing sneezing runny nose”. This viruses will clear up in a few days and there is a vaccine to this viruses but it isn’t very dependable (ALANE E.NOURSE).

However, those two viruses are both harmful to a human body there are ways a viruses could be helpful along with harmful.” First of all ,concerning the virus as helpful as it's used mostly in the field of biotechnology where they use it to inject a genetically modified genes into the genom of specific organ of the body ( as virus is specific ) and so may cure certain diseases” (Viruses ). Which that means a virus can be helpful by if you have a disease and cure the certain disease. Now, a viruses can be harmful l to a human body because they infect the body .Viruses are harmful also because they infect specific tissue in the body and cause disturbances in this organ such as flu virus.

Finally after learning on how harmful or helpful a viruses can be how about hot a viruses can affect organism. “Viruses attack animals, plants, fungi, protects, and bacteria. Some viruses can infect only specific kinds of cells” (GreenBook). That means that the viruses can only go into as a certain type of cell and infect those types of cells.

In conclusion viruses’ can be good and evil to the human body. Now with a little more knowledge about them. You don’t have to mistake them for anything else except for what they are. Also now when you have the flu or the cold or something you can understand on what’s happening to the body.

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Brown, John C. What The Heck is a Virus? July 2000. .
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What's West Nile Virus. 1995. 19 april 2012 .