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INTERFERON is a substance produced by body cells when they are attacked by viruses.

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Do red blood cells destroy viruses in your body?

No. Only white blood cells destroys pathogens, such as viruses.


What simulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses and bacteria?

The immune system simulates the body to produce chemicals such as antibodies, interferons, and cytokines that help destroy viruses and bacteria. These chemicals work together to identify and neutralize pathogens to protect the body from infections.


How a virus inters your body and 'how it reproduces in your body'?

Viruses are like parasites. They always need host to reproduce and everything. First, they enter through any kind of opening in body, like wound, or mouth. Then the viruses send in their DNA's into uninfected cells using a protein fork. Then the cell is infected, and is forced to produce more viruses. When there are no more resources to produce more viruses in the cell, viruses burst out and the cell dies. This repeats until the infected organism dies.


How do viruses survive inside the human body?

Viruses survive inside the human body by hijacking host cells to replicate and propagate. They attach to specific receptors on cell surfaces, enter the cells, and use the host's cellular machinery to produce new viral particles. Additionally, many viruses can evade the immune system through various mechanisms, such as mutating their surface proteins or hiding within cells, allowing them to persist and spread within the host.


How do viruses kill cancer cells?

Viruses can be engineered to specifically target and infect cancer cells, causing them to die. Some viruses can also stimulate the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. Additionally, certain viruses have the ability to directly interfere with the replication process of cancer cells, leading to their death.

Related Questions

What causes the host to produce new viruses like itself?

the viruses, takes over ur body cells and it starts making more viruses. hope this helps =]


What causes host to produce new viruses like itself?

the viruses, takes over ur body cells and it starts making more viruses. hope this helps =]


What happens when you get a cold?

You get sick and you need to be checked by a doctor and you will need medication (drugs) to help and kill all the viruses that have attacked your body and also the white blood cells will help because they are functioned in your body to kill the viruses and not let them in the body function


What do white blood cells produce to fight viruses inside the body?

Antibodies. which you know is a white blood cell that fights things that are anti-body.


Why do viruses kill?

Your host cells in your body.


Desscribe the role of lymph organs in fighting infections?

Helps produce white blood cells to help protect your body from the incoming viruses.


Do red blood cells destroy viruses in your body?

No. Only white blood cells destroys pathogens, such as viruses.


Where do antibodies originate in the body?

Antibodies originate in the body from specialized white blood cells called B cells. These B cells produce antibodies in response to foreign substances, such as viruses or bacteria, to help the immune system fight off infections.


What simulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses and bacteria?

The immune system simulates the body to produce chemicals such as antibodies, interferons, and cytokines that help destroy viruses and bacteria. These chemicals work together to identify and neutralize pathogens to protect the body from infections.


Which best describes how common cold spread in the human body?

viruses replicate inside respiratory cells.


What do viruses do when they enter the body's cells?

create resistant spores


What could a viruses be called living?

because when it enter in body they become live and produce disease's out body they not produce disease.