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There is still some debate on whether a virus itself is actually alive or not! Viruses are not able to replicate on their own, they need to borrow the machinery inside our cells to replicate and infect new cells. If we were dead and the machinery not working in our cells the virus would have nothing to replicate itself with. I’m not sure how long a virus would survive dormant inside dead cells for.
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Very good question jbhiss2000, thank you for asking this.
You may have heard before that virus can only live and replicate replicate inside the living cells of an organism.If the host dies, in most cases virus may die out entirely. But here is the paradox: if the virus needs the host so that it can live and reproduce why would it kill the host? Initially scientist believed that less harmful viruses that allowed the host to move around and interact with other hosts should have greater success reproducing and dispersing. But this is not necessarily the case. Virus that infects and kills the host can increase in frequency as long as the virus can transmit itself to a new host, whether before or after the host dies. But when the host dies the virus also dies with it as the sailors say captain goes down with the ship.
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