Viruses are among the biggest threats to humanity, with the current pandemic showing how these pathogens can shut down countries, halt entire industries and cause untold human suffering as they spread through communities.
Viruses have also evolved in such a way that they are difficult to kill. What makes them, including the coronavirus, so tricky to cure?
Part of the problem is the nature of viruses themselves. They exist like freeloading zombies — not quite dead, yet certainly not alive.
“Viruses don’t really do anything — they’re effectively inert until they come into contact with a host cell,” said Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Lancaster University in the
— source nbcnews.com | Denise Chow | May 7, 2020