system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Can a mutated virus become a new disease?
gpt
Yes. Accrue enough mutations and all kinds of “fun” things can happen. That’s why we have a diversity of living things (although viruses are not living, they are comprised of molecular components—DNA or RNA—that also determine the genomes of living things). The same process can occur with disease in general (of course, this is an oversimplification).