So I've had a cold and been sneezing all day. Which lead me to wonder... Is it to remove the badness as a self defense mechinism of the body? Or is it a way for the virus to spread itself?
I think the virus is the cause and sneezing is the effect and it spreading is a variable determined by wether people around you or not have an immunity to the sickness and if the right conditions allow for it to spread like enviroment and the viruses ability to mutate. Sorry for the run on sentence
It is a self defense mechanism, you could do absolutely nothing about it at all, but when it is infected throughout your body, and you randomly drop dead. im too high
I was more thinking along the line of it either being your body trying to remove a virus. OR a virus launching itself to find new hosts...
It's no coincidence that you're not supposed to sneeze on someone or share bodily fluids. It's a well-exploited infection vector, and many viruses build on it by making you expel those bodily fluids, in whatever form: diarrhea, a fine spray through the nose during a sneeze, whatever. Ebola is quite clever. It converts you into a viral jelly then makes you expel the jelly. It's not pleasant. Your body fights infection by dispatching immune-cells to surround and metabolize the offending foreign materials. Then the offenders are excreted and deposited into your colon. Nothing in the process really is supposed to make you sneeze.
AHAH! So those pesky virus' are the culprits after all! I was hoping. That is actually kinda cool. I mean it's using your own bodily functions to spread itself... nature at work.