Question

Initial Post Instructions For this discussion, take on the role of one of the pathogens we learned about. Give us a narrative about what you are doing in the body from the pathogen's point of view. How did you get into the body? In other words, how did the body inherit you. How do you move through the body? What path of destruction are you on? How will you wage battle against the body? How do you plan to win that battle? What will the body try to do to stop you? How will you fight back? Who wins?

Answer 1

We are viruses one of the pathogen cause infection in your body. virus is a kind of infectious particle, made of genetic code in a protective shell. We can’t reproduce without help from a living cell. We need to invade a cell in order to make more viruses.We are many kinds, and viruses infect every form of life on earth. Plants, animals, fungi, and even bacteria can be infected by viruses. One kind of virus usually only infects one kind of host. But very rarely, a virus can mutate in a way that allows it to cross from one kind of host to another. HIV, bird flu, SARS, and COVID-19 are examples of this.

In humans, viruses that cause disease like cold and flu are spread through bodily fluids, like spit or snot. We are virus is so small that it leaves your bodies in these fluids, and can even float through the air in droplets from a sneeze or cough. We virus can enter the body through the eyes, nose, or mouth. We can also land somewhere and wait. When someone else touches us, then rubs their face, the we can be passed on to the new person.

We can't make new one alone, we take over cells, and trick the cell into making new viruses. To enter the cell, we viruse floats up to, or lands on a cell, then attaches to a receptor. Receptors are proteins on the surface of cells that act like locks. They will only fit a specific key. The sneaky virus has a copy of that key. Proteins on the our surface are shaped just like the keys, and fit into a receptor. This starts a process that leads us either entering the cell whole, or injecting its DNA or RNA into the cell.

Once we enters the cell, we use the cell to make more viruses. We can do this because viruses and cells have an important thing in common: we both use DNA and RNA.

the small number of lymphocytes that can recognise us must become more abundant. Even though lymphocytes proliferate quickly it still takes several days before there are sufficient cells available to fight back against the infection. During this period the virus may also be spreading rapidly, so there is a race between the virus and the immune system that may determine the final outcome, in terms of recovery.

In the early phase of a viral infection, a variety of immune defences helps to slow viral spread in order to buy time for the lymphocytes to proliferate. One of these defences is mediated by a group of signalling proteins called interferons. When a cell becomes infected by virus, the cell can recognise components of the virus and respond by releasing interferons that diffuse to neighbouring cells and stimulate signalling pathways by binding to receptors on their surface. Consequently, these neighbouring cells start synthesising a large number of anti-viral proteins that put the cells into a state of viral resistance. If we ever infects these cells, viral replication is inhibited. By this mechanism, the spread of infection through the tissue is slowed.

When we enters your body, your immune system eventually finds us. It raises your temperature to help fight us, makes your nose run to trap us in snot, and attacks the our particles directly.One way is to get vaccinated against us. A vaccine will train your immune system to recognize us as soon as it enters your body, before it can take over. Antivirals are another method to help you fight us. These are medicines that help prevent infection from happening or fight the us once you are already infected. They can stop the us at many phases of its “life” cycle, including when we entering your cells, making new viruses inside your cells, or leaving your cells to infect new ones.but washing your hands with soap and water is a great way to protect yourself from us getting into your body in the first place. Soap breaks down the protective lipid envelope of some of us. It also is good at trapping and washing away naked form of us, or if you are using sanitizer, they also kill us.

Some times if you are infected with us not use face mask or cover your mouth or nose when sneezing or coughing, we will infect you and people around you. There by we enter your body and infect each and every one.

We can win each viruses by proper handwashing and use of sanitizer or by using facemask.if we are not careful about infection it helps the viruses to invade inside the body and multiplies and cause infection. Proper standard precautions helps to win any viruses.