Would there be a disease thats deadly to itself?!
Question: Highly virulent infections could be argued to be deadly to themselves. By killing their hosts quickly, they in effect reduce the chances of their own transmission.
However, as for an bug that attacks itself directly, no, that's not possible. It wouldn't survive, and thus that's not a plausible model for an organism.
Answers: Highly virulent infections could be argued to be deadly to themselves. By killing their hosts quickly, they in effect reduce the chances of their own transmission.
However, as for an bug that attacks itself directly, no, that's not possible. It wouldn't survive, and thus that's not a plausible model for an organism.
No because then the disease wouldn't exist anymore because it would have killed itself.
You might say that a really virulent disease is deadly to itself...eventually. That's why viruses such as Ebola are not a huge problem (yet). They generally kill their hosts before they can spread too far, and then the strain itself dies with the host.
In theory Bob V up above is right, but I suppose a disease could start as one strand and mutate into something else that could killd the original form. Weird thought.
no but yeast does that. when you make beer or bread. the east produces Carbon Dioxide(poisonuse when in high contentration) and in the bread or drink it produces so much co2 that it kills itself