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Pathogenic viruses cause illnesses and disease.

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What poison is produced by bacteria and viruses to make us feel ill?

toxins


How do tiny organisms like bacteria and viruses make a large person like us ill?

By reproducing and multiplying rapidly. and they make us ill by attacking our cells and converting their normal functions to producing the virus.so they get your own cells to do their dirty work too (this applies for viruses)


Why do viruses make us feel ill?

The bodies in a fight back modeBecause the virus is affecting your body by shutting down parts of the body.


Do hamnsters make us ill?

no


How does bacteria make us ill?

Because you have aids


Why do viruses make us sick?

A virus will make us sick because it disrupts the function of the cells or actually kills cells. Viruses uses healthy cells in order to replicate.


Can sudden changes in temperature make us ill?

Many professional doctors do not think that a change in temperature will make a person ill.


Can emotions make us sick?

Well, you can get ill from depression.


What kind of micro-organism can make us ill?

In general, microorganisms that can make you sick are termed "germs" by the non-medical world. Bacteria that can cause disease or sickness are termed "pathogens." There are way too many to list here and certain strains of microorganisms can be harmful while other strains of that same organism may not be.


Why does ice cream make us ill?

Because it is cold which gives us sore throats etc


What purpose do the antibodies in the blood serve?

they attack bacteria and viruses that make us sick


How does viruses effect our life?

Viruses can effect our life by giving us a cold. But HIV, however, can kill us. Our immune system have lymphocytes that destroy viruses by using antibodies. Viruses tell the nucleus to make copies of the viruses. So many are made, the cell explodes. HIV destroy our lymphocytes. So we get weaker and weaker and then die.