• Question: What Is The Most Dangerous Virus??

    Asked by wally95 to Sarah, Panos, Michael, Mark, MarkF on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      The Acquired Immuno Defficency Syndrome (AIDS) virus called HIV, it damages the immune system so much that other infections can take hold and kill you.

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      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      A number of virsuses can kill, so are obviously pretty dangerous! Ebola is definitely up there, as it kills a very high proprtion of peopke infected with it.

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      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      May be Ebola?

    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Ebola virus, perhaps. It kills 90% of those infected by it. Once you have symptoms it can kill within a week, however because it kills so quick then it doesn’t get a chance to spread a lot so a virus that doesn’t kill straight away and can infect a lot of people and kill them may be thought of as more dangerous, in this case HIV could be thought of as more dangerous.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Probably Ebola…its certianly usually in the top 10 realatively easy to transit and lethal…that said if bird flu ever got the ability to enter human cells as easy as bird cells we would all be introuble as 60% of humans ever infected with bird flu..died…

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