What is the difference between a virus and a disease?
A disease is a broad term that simply means an abnormality in a physiologic process that interferes with the norm, due to whatever reason. A virus is just that…a virus, a tiny microorganism (debatable on whether it’s actually an “organism” since it can’t live on its own) that needs to invade a living host to proliferate, disease often occurs from the effects of having that virus proliferate and altering your cell DNA or your body’s response to certain parts of that particular virus (epitopes).
