Question

If white blood cells are destroyed by a virus, how does the organism survive?

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Answer 1

White blood cells consists of neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes and lympocytes.
The specific virus will target only specific WBC. HIV kills the T lympocytes only. Decrease in the T lympocytes makes a problems to the organisms. The organisms are not able to effectively fights with
pathogens. The other WBC will do the normal function so try to defence against the microbes. But, the overall the organisms immune system will become weak and certain period of time lot of other infection continuously affect the body and organisms will die.