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The Virus that Conquered the World with Prof Peter Doherty [S2 Ep.29]

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Infections - How Do Viruses Operate?

To get infected with covet, you're most likely to breathe it in. It will then try to find a molecule that's on the surface of many cells throughout the body. This is abnormally an important molecular and physiological function. But it's actually the receptive for the virus te spike which has nine proteins in it. Once that happens, it can get into the cell. That's how viruses operate. Can't multiply themselves. They have to just bump into a cell they can infect. And then they get into thecell, they take over the cell. When one virous particle comes out, it'll make a hundred thousand copies. So now maybe 90000 of those are not infectious

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