Question

All of these viruses typically result in persistent infections rather than cellular death except:

A) HIV
B) Hepatitis
C) Epstein-Barr
D) Herpes

Answer 1

C) Epstein-Barr

Step-by-step explanation:

Usually virus can kill cells directly when virus copies emerge as buds that burst through the cell membrane, killing the cell in the process.

Another way is killing the host cell directly just by exhausting its resources.

And another way is when the host cell machinery becomes grossly distorted triggering a process known as programmed cell death or apoptosis.

The Epstein-Barr virus can block apoptosis, therefore making the cells more likely to become cancerous.