Eli5: What do deadly viruses/parasites get out of killing their hosts?

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Surely it is easier to spread through a living host?

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Killing is just an unintended side effect of them being to effective at using the hosts cells to reproduce.

Or the hosts immune response going overboard trying to fight back.

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