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The virus takes over your cell, then reproduces with the infection, making more viruses.

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How do you describe the reproduction of polio in the body?

Polio virus can infect only human being. Like other viruses, polio virus infect the cells. After getting attached to the cell, the virus genome is inserted into the cell body. The genetic material of the host is broken into small fragments and assembled as per the genome of the polio virus. Multiple such copies are formed and then released in the body to infect the new cells.


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Why could a virus not infect another virus?

Viruses only infect living organisms and since they are not alive, they can not infect other viruses. The question is interesting though.


Why cant every virus infect every living cell?

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What do viruses that cause physical diseases infect?

It depends on what kind of virus. Viruses can infect any cell in the human body. Viruses such as HIV infect the immune system; air-born viruses, such as H1N1 or a cold, infect the respiratory system; neurological viruses, like rabies infect the brain (the virus is usually carried to it by peripheral nerves); and viruses like polio effect the nervous system, which can create paralysis.


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What tissue of the body does rabies infect?

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Can a bacteria infect a virus?

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