Talk:Helminth/@comment-24915956-20161227191349/@comment-104.245.72.230-20161227192505

Well, what makes it a virus, or a disease, is that it has effects that alter your state and last. It comes out of nowhere without warning, and pretty much all the information we have about it comes from understanding it after the fact.

If there was some forwarning about how it worked, or all it did was make us look different, or if it gave us some random trait we could choose or reject, it would be a 'virus' by name and nothing else.