Ho did you initially get interested in viruses?

Question: Ho did you initially get interested in viruses?
- Keywords:
  disease,
  inspiration,
  virus
Asked by 284gdna42 to Arthur on 13 Nov 2014.
- Arthur Dyer answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  I have always been interested in diseases and particularly viruses as they cause the nastiest disease!
  
  All a virus is is just a shell with a little bit of DNA in it and nothing more so it has evolved to carry as little as possible then this little bit of DNA gets into a cell and completely hijacks all of the cells own mechanisms meaning that it turns into a virus making machine… i just think they’re really cool especially a group of viruses called zoonotic viruses which are viruses that spread from animals to humans (like Ebola, Flu, HIV) because they’re always super deadly.
  
  What’s your favourite virus?

284gdna42 commented on 13 Nov 2014:

I don’t know I haven’t really looked into it but it’s weird how HIV can develop into AIDS

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Question: Ho did you initially get interested in viruses?