Flu Virus

FLU Virus,

The flu could be any flu and here's a droplet from his sneeze containing if we move in and take a little closer lookyou see each one of those little purples thing is a virus and there is a lot of viruses floating through the air some of which go inevitably up this unfortunate man's nose how did that guy feel when you ripped off half of his face it was interesting because we did it while he was sleeping okay.

 I am talking with medical illustrator David Belinsky who designed this video is for Cyrus a research companyso here comes the virus and it's Gonna land on one of this guy's throat cells so notice it's covered with little yellow knobby things that you call these keys are the keys okay if the keys on this virus happen to fit the locks which are those little purple stick uppy things on the surface of the cell if there is a match the cell watch this welcomes the virus in and what's this is the welcoming community they all interlock with each other and they pull this membrane down into the cell and down it goes deeper and deeper and that welcoming structure disperses and the virus capsule bursts out comes the secret recipe for how to make more viruses and that little newt lis.

A thing so this unsuspecting cell has been tricked into guiding these virus recipes right into its command center the nucleus so in they go and they are immediately recognized by this big pink the molecule which is a mini factory you know what is it doing it threads the nuclear material the instruction code of the virus through one hole and out of another hole comes a brand new instruction set so it's a copying machine making copy after copy, after copy of virus recipes which then go out of the nucleus to little chefs those blue peanutty things they cook up, proteins that go back into the nucleus where they are reassembled into baby viruses and then they go they get covered up and head to the surface.

 Where they get new keys and then boom here they come this is aneruption of the virus after virus after virus after only one virus entered the cell but how many came out well millions Millions so if one virus can produce a million babies and do it again and again and again how come this guy doesn't just drop dead I don't know in like ten minutes well because you have about a hundred trillion cells so a million viruses are just a drop in the bucket when you have a hundred trillion cells in any way remember you do have your own the immune system which when it sees a virus usually kills it so while the virus does multiply fast with any luck your immune the system will work just a little faster so yes viruses all viruses want to spread that's what they do but most of the time we do keep them in check most of the time you