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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a virus?


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Viruses:

  1. Viruses are small microscopic organisms that are most often infectious organisms.
  2. These are considered non-living organisms outside the host body, once a host organism is obtained, viruses tend to replicate.

Advantages of virus:

  1. Viruses are utilized as vectors or carriers, transporting the material needed to treat a disease to various target cells.
  2. With the help of viruses, nanoscale materials are arranged.

Disadvantages of viruses:

  1. Viruses are infectious organisms that cause a wide range of diseases in humans.
  2. Eradicating a viral disease is a very difficult task.
  3. The rate of transmission of the virus occurs rapidly.

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