why do viruses try to kill the thing keeping them alive?

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why do viruses try to kill the thing keeping them alive?

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Because viruses aren’t intelligent beings that are aware of their host. A virus is just a small amount of genetic material surrounded by proteins. All it is able to do is carry out whatever the tiny amount of DNA/RNA tells it to do, which is usually inject its DNA or RNA into the host cell, and to hijack the cell to reproduce itself.

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