"Tim Tyler"  wrote in message
>
> The fate of most such viral infections is to make peace with their hosts -
> and to become less life-threatening.  This is what has happened to
> the equivalent of HIV in our cousins - for example.
>
This is a bit of a fallacy, that parasites eventually evolve to mutually
beneficial relationships with their hosts. All the virus cares about is
getting out of that host and into a new one so it can complete its
lifecycle. If this is achieved by making the host live longer then mutualism
will evolve. However if the virus multiplies massively are tries to flood
the environment with copies, then probably the host will be killed in the
process.
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