Alright ive always wondered this, Since we have Germs...do those germs have germs?
Think of it like this. . .
We have germs, Well if you view a germ as a person type thing, that keeps multiplying, if one dyes is it possible that its from something smaller? which means a germs germ? If germs have germs, does this consist of a neverending germ cycle? if so, Could we be a germ to something bigger, but we're sooo small we cant tell?
Is it possible, or am i just really crazy
this is a question which is asked by many inquisitive people...........and i don't think the answer to this has been descovered yet, but i guess we may have to wait till someone who knows most of what's going on in the scientific world, replies here...... 
Well, there are two major kinds of germs: bacteria (and other single celled life, for you sticklers to exceptions out there) and viruses.
As far as I know, it is quite possible for a bacteria to be infected by a virus, but it is impossible for a virus to get infected by anything. (It has been argued that viruses are not alive in the first place, and if that's true then they can't die anyway.)
So, to sum it up, some germs can get diseases of their own, and some can't.
But does that mean that there can be infact many many small "worlds" of comand and conquer between multiple types of germs?
you would eventually reach a point where the germ's germ's germ is indivisible anyway. Besides, think of it this way, what organic creature are humans the germs of? At a certain point you are reaching the level of atomic scale, at which point it is nearly impossible to create any type of animated machine.
essentially, there are bacteria and viruses, bacteria are pretty large, viruses are very small. Bacteria is actual organisms that eat and move about, viruses are simply DNA interpolators, essentially, altering cell DNA.
It's essentially impossible to infect a virus with anything, because of the way they are built.
So the answer to your question is no. Bacteria can contract certain viruses, but viruses cannot contract smaller viruses and so forth.
Bacteria do have virus that infect and kill the bacteria. Some research about virus to be a new antibiotic has turn out pretty well. Virus is not a living spices so they cant be effected.
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| But does that mean that there can be infact many many small "worlds" of comand and conquer between multiple types of germs? |
Certainly. Put two different bacterial strains in a petri dish, and watch them compete with each other. In fact, most antibiotics are made by microorganisms (mostly varieties of fungus) in order to fight other microbes.Viruses that infect bacterai are called bacteriophages, or phages for short. Early scientists tried using them as a primitive anti-biotic, but they were ineffective and to immuogenic for the host.
Interestingly, viruses of one type will often interfere with the abilty of another type of virus to infect or replicate within a host cell by numerous mechanisms.
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| Interestingly, viruses of one type will often interfere with the abilty of another type of virus to infect or replicate within a host cell by numerous mechanisms. |
Isn't this the new way scientists are trying to combat cancerous cells? By infecting them with cold virii etc.?Thats true. As a cancer biologist, we remove segmets of the viral genome and replace them with a gene that we think will affect tumor cells. These genes are typical either cytotoxic, cytostatic, or render tumor cells more sensitive to traditional chemotherapeutics. The most common virus is the "common cold" virus or adenovirus.
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