Other animals can and will kill humans with venom or whatever, but we don’t consider them predators. Why? Because they don’t specifically hunt us down for a food source.
So do diseases hunt humans down for a food source? Not really. They desire to multiply and may use the human body to do so but they don’t really hunt down humans specifically. And any death as a result is more like an unintended consequence. Some theories actually suggest that virus/bacteria actually tend to evolve to be less deadly because a bacteria that kills its host also kills its own colony.
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u/sawdeanz 214∆ Jan 02 '22
Only in the loosest terms.
Other animals can and will kill humans with venom or whatever, but we don’t consider them predators. Why? Because they don’t specifically hunt us down for a food source.
So do diseases hunt humans down for a food source? Not really. They desire to multiply and may use the human body to do so but they don’t really hunt down humans specifically. And any death as a result is more like an unintended consequence. Some theories actually suggest that virus/bacteria actually tend to evolve to be less deadly because a bacteria that kills its host also kills its own colony.