Robert the Pilegrim
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FYI: A number of viruses are resistant to antivirals, big worry vis-a-vis possible influenza pandemic.shernren said:
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FYI: A number of viruses are resistant to antivirals, big worry vis-a-vis possible influenza pandemic.shernren said:That's why a virus doesn't HAVE defence mechanisms. It only faces two possible dangers:
1. That when it hijacks the cell, the cell will not allow it to reproduce. Which is precisely what antivirals do, and as far as I know there isn't a single virus immune to antivirals (they aren't used not because they aren't effective but because they are expensive. Only "big" diseases like AIDS merit their use.).
Being as it is an extreme as far as complexity.
FYI: A number of viruses are resistant to antivirals, big worry vis-a-vis possible influenza pandemic.
shernren said:Oh. I stand corrected [on antiviral resistance], then. Which?
david_x said:Because a virus is so incomplex it has an ability to defend that a complex organism does not.
Because a virus is so incomplex it has an ability to defend that a complex organism does not.
david_x said:You were not here for the rest of the argument were you.
david_x said:Because a virus is so incomplex it has an ability to defend that a complex organism does not.
david_x said:They are able to defend themselves in a way that complex organisms cannot.
What do you mean? Viruses have no metabolic system (unless in a cell) so it makes sense that certain things that affect bacteria doesn't affect viruses. That's no more an ability than the lack of seeing so that you don't go blind when you see an ugly chick naked an ability.
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