The Hot Zone
What is a parasite and why does the author describe a virus as a parasite?
chapter 6: total immersion
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A parasite is an organism that lives on or within another organism.
A virus is a parasite. It can’t live on its own. It can only make copies of itself inside a cell using the cell’s materials and machinery to get the job done.Source(s)
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 82). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
