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Cultural_Wallaby_703 t1_iwlj7tt wrote

Many parasites do. It depends on the parasite and the host

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drengr84 t1_iwlkt97 wrote

Parasites that are able to move to another host may kill their host. Parasites that rely 100% on one host for survival tend to avoid killing it.

In my bad analogy, humans don't have a secondary host to jump to.

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