why do virus not infect other virus inside your body
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Other answers say “they kind of do”, but this is only true for a very few of them.
The real answer here is that viruses (virii) are **SPECIALIZED**. They only attack a very specific target because there’s loads of complex chemistry involved. They need to connect in a very certain way, in the same way two big sections of a jigsaw puzzle only fit together in a very specific way. Throw parts of a different jigsaw puzzle in there, and they simply won’t match.
Most viruses ignore other viruses and attack a certain type of cell in your body. Sometimes it’s a nerve cell. For other viruses, it’s a blood cell. Or perhaps a lung cell.
And they can’t attack any other type of cell than their specific target because they don’t have the right chemistry.
For most viruses, other viruses simply aren’t the target. So they get ignored.
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