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WHY IS SARS-COV-2 CLASSED AS A PATHOGEN

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SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus strain known to infect humans and it causes respiratory disease in humans. These viruses infect humans and are currently causing a pandemic in the world.

A pathogen is an infectious organism that causes illness or disease to its host. There are many types of pathogens that infect the body of the host that disrupts the normal physiological process of an organism. SARS CoV2 is also a pathogen as it infects the human body and disrupts its physiology and causes disease.

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