MicrobeWorld

This video from Geoffrey Smith and his team of virologists at Imperial College London shows how vaccinia virus spreads through cells. What's interesting about this is that when the virus leaves one cell in search of another to infect, vaccinia would bounce off of or hop over cells that were already infected. This finding suggests that viruses may operate in a similar manner that bees do in a hive by communicating to others where to locate the best food sources.