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Smallpox virus uses camouflaging as garbage.

Thats really “DIRTY”. The group around J. Mercer now found out, that viruses belonging to the family of vaccinia virus seem to use a vicious mechanism to deceive their target cells. (Jason Mercer and Ari Helenius, 2008, Science). [PubMed] They activate messengers which makes the cell believe, that what she sees is debris from cells, [...]