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Written by Hemant Khanna, University of Massachusetts Medical School

When most people think of the word “virus,” they often relate it to infections or diseases. The sole purpose of a virus is to attack and infect a normal cell, use it to replicate, and then kill it. Some examples include the flu virus and the deadly Ebola virus. Read more.

Published February 4th, 2019 by the San Francisco Chronicle