is bacteria more harmful than virus?

Answer 1

Some bacteria are beneficial to mankind, whereas I have yet to hear about a useful virsus.

Answer 2

No. It depends on the type of bacteria or virus as to how harmful it is, there are types of both that can kill you and there are also examples of both that don't do much at all. Most bacteria though can be treated with antibiotics, a virus cannot be treated like this.

Answer 3

On the contrary. Viruses or pathigens are more harmful then bacteria. Bacteria remains in our body,in every single corner of the world but yet does hardly any damage; even some of the bacteria are essential for us(Making Curd out of milk, releasing nitrogen from our body,decomposing bio-degradable stuff and helps in making our bonnes strong as well.).these stuff u can not expect from a virus as being a pathogen they tend to mutate and multiply based on the source organism

Answer 4

The more harmful (to humans) is a bacteria, Clostridium botulinum. It produces botulin toxin, an extraordinarily poisonous substance that is lethal at a dosage of a mere 300pg/kg.

You did not ask about the benefits of viral and bacterial interaction with host organisms, but I will comment on the topic in the possibility that it is of interest. Bacteria, viruses and retroviruses offer benefits, including protection through adaptation of systems to fend of various attacks produced by other viruses, retroviruses and by bacteria.

Answer 5

the ability of a pathogen (either bacteria or virus) to cause an infection depends on a factor called virulence.

Virulence is either the relative pathogenicity or the relative ability to do damage to the host of an infectious agent. The term is used mainly for viruses, but it can be more generally applied to parasites or bacteria.

Please read more on virulence at Wikipedia

Answer 6

Bacteria is a kind of organism, which can be defeated by organism. Virus is a genetic mutating agent, which cannot be defeated by organism. So, a virus is more dangerous than bacteria because it changes its genetic code(DNA) every time it invades a cell.

Answer 7

no virus are much more harmful than the former .viruses have the tendency to make copies of themselves using the DNA of the host and also manipulating it, where as they r non living things outside the host so it is difficult to study them. also there r many hybrids of viruses still unknown to the biologists but they estimate that they would manymore times harmful than the usual as they r the hybrids.the imp. point is they spread from one host to another much faster than bacteria eg: SARS, BIRDFLU etc. also many bacteria r useful like bacillus etc, but till now no virus is considered useful to humanbeings.

Answer 8

It can be, depending on what type of bacteria. On the other hand, it depends on which virus you're talking about. Either can be beneficial, or even deadly.

Answer 9

Viruses multiply faster than bacteria.They are cellular parasites.They are inert unless they have entered the host cell.
Bacteria are decmoposers and in that sense useful.Many are beneficial in that they fix nitrogen, manufacture vitamins, make milk into curd and so on.You can use bacteria to manufacture useful molecules like insulin by using the techniques of biotechnology.But there are bacteria causing disease like tuberculosis, typhoid etc.

Answer 10

i think viruses r really deadly.there r no cure for it.but from bacteria ah so much help.but i don't say that they r not harmful.they too r harmful but not as virus

Answer 11

both are equally harmful. For example some species of gram positive and gram negative stephalococci can cause septicemia or septic shop.
Even virus such as hepatic virus can lead to hepatic coma