“A tactic familiar from insect behaviour seems to give viruses the edge in the eternal battle between them and their host – and the remarkable proof can be seen in a video.
The video catches viruses only a few hundred nanometres in size in the act of hopping over cells that are already infected. This allows them to concentrate their energies on previously uninfected cells, accelerating the spread of infection fivefold.”
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I don’t see why this action suggests a virus ‘hive intelligence’? Surely a simpler mechanism would be that a passing virus responds to a flag within an infected cell, set up by the original infector of that cell.
Viruses are not alive, they will only inject their RNA into a suitable cell. They have no minds, let alone a gestalt!