What is the point of rabies and HIV killing their hosts?
If the premise of most living things is to procreate, then what is the rationale of a disease/invading organism doing when it kills the host ?..which would ultimately lead to it's own demise !..Surely this serves no long term purpose at all !
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Anonymous2013-05-11 0:13
Jew Logic
What is the point of rabbie and kikes killing their host nations?
If the premise of most living things is to procreate, then what is the rationale of a jew/invading organism doing when it kills the host nation?..which would ultimately lead to it's own demise !..Surely this serves no long term purpose at all !
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Anonymous2013-05-11 0:50
not all viruses are like that
look at toxoplasma gondii, which lives in its host but usually remains dormant
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Anonymous2013-05-11 0:55
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Rabies has found a decent pathway by making its host unafraid of danger / crazy. It attacks or is attacked enough to propagate.
HIV obviously doesn't even need to do this for it to propagate.
Why do you think genetics follows reasoning? It is imperfect, random numbers emerging on solutions.
Viruses don't want to kill their host, it's a side effect. The cells that the virus uses to replicate itself were not made to make viruses and are damaged in the process.
If anything, the fact that viruses sometimes kill is an example of how good they are in surviving and utilizing resources to maximum.
You have to remember that the virus doesn't ``know'' where it is, it's simply adapting to it's territory and trying to multiply. If it's successful in multiplying then this affects the host body, but by then the original virus is long gone and you're dealing with it's ``descendants'', so it's achieved it's purpose.
Another example is the ``Ebola'' virus, process by which can bleed the host to death over a few weeks. It helps spread the virus to other hosts via blood. The gain of increased viral spread to other hosts outweighs the loss of killing a host: a net increase in the number of copies of viral genes.