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Plenty of viruses use DNA and not RNA. The virus injects it's DNA sequence into the host DNA.

This is why people have "flare ups" of herpes/cold sores. That is a DNA virus, so once the cells are infected they carry that DNA sequence forever, even after the cells divide.




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