an active virus enters a cell and is active it causes the host cell to make new viruses, which destroy the host cell. a latent viruses is some viruses may be latent viruses. a latent virus enters a cell and its hereditary material may become part of the cell's hereditary materials.
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hidden viruses take their time and wait until they make the host cell produce more of the virus..
kind of like a ninja, waiting to spring at any moment.
The genes of a hidden virus remain in your cells forever. You can never get rid of them and they can become active at any time.
An active virus makes you sick right away (like a cold), but after your body has cleared it out it is gone for good and it can never make you sick again.
The " hidden " virus is called a provirus and it insets it's genetic material into the genome of the invaded cell so that the cell copies itself many times and copies the virus also. An active virus just invades and hijacks the cell immediately to reproduce the virus. The " hidden " type of virus does come out after a time and acts like a active virus then Google lytic cycle and lysoginy.
The easiest way to understand how viruses replicate is to study the life cycles of viruses called bacteriophages (bacteria eaters). Bacteriophages replicate by either a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle. The difference in these two cycles is that the cell dies at the end of the lytic cycle or the cell remains in the lysogenic cycle. The virus remains "hidden".
Well think of latent viruses as viruses that are sleepy and don't do much to your body, active viruses are well basically active viruses.
A hidden virus becomes active when like say if you get sick the virus would become active then because it has a greater chance of tearing down your system .