PARASITE. THE WORD ALONE CAN make your skin crawl. Parasites are viruses or organisms, and can be anything from inconvenient pests that don’t normally kill to mind-controlling puppet masters with (often disgusting) life strategies that have evolved to benefit themselves at the cost of other life-forms: their hosts.
What is parasitism?
It’s a relationship in which one partner exploits the resources of the other. Those resources are