What doesn't kill ya

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "I’ve always believed that what doesn’t kill you, makes you very very weak."

  • Norm Macdonald

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• confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t they usually mutate to less deadly forms? Killing their host isn’t exactly a successful strategy.

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yes, killing the host is considered a jerk move in the microbial community, but some still take the suicidal path, it’s a bacterial insanity issue

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AIDS didn’t get the memo, try emailing them.

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  • jjagaimo@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cancer is a prime example of op message

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• synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t the bacteriophage, kind of a good guy virus ? Or is there other viruses with this distinctive shape ?

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as I know it’s kind of a good guy virus but I think it’s very specialised on what kind of bacteria it kills so maybe there is a variant that kills all the good bacteria in us. And that can’t be too good, I imagine.

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• Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Killing the host is typically a pretty bad long term evolutionary strategy for something that requires a host though. Better to keep the host alive so it can proliferate you

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