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Stress can make a virus worse than it currently is, and can even activate a dormant virus.

A virus that is hiding and not doing anything is considered to be in what scientists call the lysogenic cycle. Stress can cause a virus in the lysogenic cycle to advance to the lytic cycle, which is the state at which the virus advances and actually takes effect.

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