Invaders !

[--Pete]

Hi,

I suppose that 'harmless' would have been a better choice of words, but then you'd have been robbed of the opportunity to reply to my post, not?;)

Oh, I don't know. I could probably have found another needle to poke you with, but that was just too good to pass up.

Or did you really think that all virusses are bad?

Actually, 'harmful' and 'harmless' would be better terms. Thank you for that link, I guess that I'll have to add 'beneficial' to the list of categories describing viruses. Viruses are neither 'good' nor 'bad' -- those are moral choices a bit above a virus' intellectual capacity. I've known since high school biology, around 1962, that most viruses are harmless to humans. I suspect a bacterium would not share my opinion that a bacteriophage was 'harmless'. Then again, perhaps bacteria don't have opinions.:)

--Pete