What are the beneficial and harmful effects of viruses?
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Bacteria and viruses can make you sick. ... But there are also beneficial bacteria and viruses. Bacteria help us digest our food, fight dangerous pathogens, and produce vitamin K. Viruses can teach our immune systems to better fight disease, fight harmful bacteria, and may one day help us fight diseases including cancer.
Advantages of Virus: Viruses like the bacteriophages have an important function in marine ecology and carbon cycling. The bacteriophages in the sewage have the ability to systematically decompose the high bacterial level. Viruses are important in the field of molecular and cell biology.
Many viruses cause little or no disease and are said to be "benign". The more harmful viruses are described as virulent. Viruses cause different diseases depending on the types of cell that they infect. ... There are many ways in which viruses spread from host to host but each species of virus uses only one or two.