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What is the difference between a pathogenic virus and a harmless one?
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∙ 13y ago
One of them is pathogenic ... that is, it produces disease... and the other one doesn't.
The answer is more or less contained in the question.
The reason one produces a disease and the other doesn't has to do with the precise details of each, and cannot be answered generally.
Some viruses are pathogenic in a particular species and harmless in others; other viruses affect entire classes of organisms (for example, pretty much all mammals can get rabies).
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