Hot Zone/Coming Plague

[Steven Poet]

austin at netcom.com (Tommy Beach) wrote:

> 	I know, I couldn't believe that when I read it.  He also called
> 	a virus a parasite which is a misnomer since a parasite is a
> 	plant, animal or bug and a virus is just a bundle of RNA or DNA.
> 
> 	Thanks for the reference.
> 
> 

Actually, a "pretty good" working definition of a virus is, an obligate
intracellular parasite.  That works about as well as defining a 
vertebrate as an animal with an endoskeleton.