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Some viruses are very specific to certain cells. The cell has proteins on it's surface and a virus will use it a docking station to be able to enter the cell. Some cells don't have that protein and the virus can not enter the cell.

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Viruses can only enter human cells which have proteins which act as docking stations and which proteins that match ones that the virus has.

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