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Viruses do not kill cells

Updated: 12/3/2022
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Why do viruses kill?

Your host cells in your body.


What can bacteria do that viruses cannot?

Bacteria can attack and kill cells. White blood cells can kill bacteria.


How can you kill viruses?

There are numerous products that kill viruses on environmental surfaces, but few that safely attack them in the body. The body's "T helper cells" can signal macrophages to attack some viruses.


What are oncolytic viruses?

Oncolytic viruses are viruses used in cancer treatment. They kill these viruses through chemical means in multiple stages by attacking infected cells.


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What is the function of white blood cels?

Cells* To kill any viruses and to protect your body.


Can antiviral drugs be used to kill viruses inside you?

No. The main reason is that viruses are not really alive, the way you and I think of it. Drugs like Interferon, which occur in the body's cells and as a manufactured drug, do not "kill" viruses, but rather block the virus's ability to grab hold of and infect your body's receptor cells.


Why doesn't antibiotics effect virus?

Antibiotics kill infectious cells, but viruses are non-living.


What do white blood cells do mostly?

they mostly try to kill viruses and help the blood flow


What compounds kill bacteria cells and some viruses on the skin?

Antibacterial ointments, like Neosporin.


how are new viruses produced How might this process cause harm to the infected cell?

All viruses kill they cells that they infect. If not right away then later.


How do viruses kill cancer cells?

Because they attack the cells in the body and cancer cells are just the mutated cell of our body very good question by the way