Little things about virus you need to know

A virus is an organism that contains a DNA fused in a protein coat and funny enough,a virus cannot live outside an host because it cannot metabolize (create food)on its own .so if you are infected with a virus it becomes living when it gets inside you.It becomes dormant (inactive) the moment it leave your body. Virus becomes a pathogen when it infects a cell VIRAL PATHOGENESIS MECHANISM Viral pathogenesis is very dependent on: -gaining access to the host -evading the host defenses -reproducing itself and causing damage and death of the host cell Michael Elkan