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Hi,i would like to know which common viruses affect blood.
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All and none: No virus targets plasma, red cells or platelets as they lack the machinery to let them reproduce. All viruses known to cause illness evoke a response from one or more of the white blood cells, and several of the retroviruses (infamously HTLV-1, HIV) and Epstein-Barr multiply in some of the lymphocytes.
Answered 6/3/2015
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