Can viruses get infected by viruses?

Answer 1

No- they are both pathogens. Pathogens are harmful or hurtful germs such as viruses, bacteria, worms, and parasites. If they are both Pathogens, then they can't really kill each other.

Answer 2

Remember that every kind of virus can attack only certain kinds of cells, and therefore it can attack only certain kinds of animals and plants. Usually, though not always, a virus that will attack one kind of animal will not check any very different kind of animal. Usually, though still not always, a virus that attacks a plant will not attack an animal. Because there are so many kinds of viral diseases, you can tell that there are many many kinds of viruses, and that most of us do not harm humans at all.

Now, having got that clear, you will not be surprised to hear that, because bacteria are made of cells (one cells for each bacterium) they certainly are viruses that attack bacteria, and in fact some of them are quite amazing.

The best-known viruses that attack bacteria, in fact they often are called bacterial viruses, are the ones we call the phages, or bacteriophages. They look a little like tadpoles or perhaps spaceships. At one end there is a big hollow crystal-like block in which the phage carries its genetic material, the recipe from which copies of the phage are to be made. From one end of the block there is a thick hollow tube with special clutching, clawlike protein molecules at the end. When the molecules bump into a bacterium with the right kind of outer skin, they hook on, pierce through the bacterial wall, and the whole phage pools together and squirts all the genetic material inside the block into the bacterium. There all the genetic machinery of the bacterium gets fooled into working on the genetic material of the phage instead of the bacterium. Several things can happen at this point, but the usual thing that happens is that the bacterium goes on producing phages inside itself until it bursts and the new phages get out and those that are lucky enough to bump into more bacteria will go through the whole process again.

Bacteriophages of such types are extremely important in fighting many kinds of disease germs. There are many kinds of them, including some kinds that differ from other bacteriophages as much as say, foxes differ from lions.

Apart from bacteriophages, there are many other kinds viruses that infect bacteria. One interesting kind travels through the pili, tubes that bacteria use to attach themselves to other bacteria to swap genetic material; almost a sort of sexual process if you like. These viruses actually pass from bacterium to bacterium through the pili.

That is by no means the end of the list, but as you can see, yes viruses can live in bacteria, but bear in mind that only certain kinds of viruses only in certain bacteria.

Answer 3

Yes, that is by definition what viruses do.

Answer 4

Yep. Some viruses that infect other programs don't really care what the other program is, and will infect it anyway if possible.

Answer 5

when a virus strep infects a bacteira strep a strep AB occurs only has happened 2 or 3 times