After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball—a mindless killer that gets into a cell and hijacks its machinery to create a gazillion copies of itself before bursting out. For many viruses, including the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the “mindless killer” epithet is essentially true.
Click here for original story, Some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill them
Source: Phys.org