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Bacterial viruses infect only bacteria, not plants or animals, plant viruses infect only plants and animal viruses infect only animals. Furthermore, most viruses are even more specific. Most viruses that infect whales or birds do not infect us. Therefore, although we live in a virtual "sea of viruses," only about one per cent of all currently known viruses can infect humans.
For example, some viruses have been used as natural pesticides. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved use of several bacterial viruses to selectively kill bacteria that are harmful to food. Some viruses may prefer to grow in transformed cancerous cells. Such viruses might be useful as "silver bullets" to kill cancers.
It also appears that reovirus is amongst the hardiest of known viruses. For example, i...
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