Viral Shedding
After a virus has made many copies of itself, it usually has exhausted the cell of its resources. The host cell is now no longer useful to the virus, therefore the cell often dies and the newly produced viruses must find a new host. The process by which virus progeny are released to find new hosts, is called shedding. This is the final stage in the viral life cyle.
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“The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)