Is the Ebola virus a living or non-living thing?

Viruses are, however, very hard to classify as living or non-living, because they share lots of similarities with living organisms. But officially, all viruses are non-living, including the ebola virus. read more

Ebola is a virus - it is technically not a living thing since it contains no cells. A virus is simply a strand of genetic material surrounded by a capsid - a protein coat. Mad Cow disease is caused by something called a prion - or a mis-folded protein that affects brain and spinal cord tissue. read more

A virus on a doorknob is as non living as a doorknob, but if it somehow transports onto a plant or an animal cell, depending on what genetic material it has (double stranded/single stranded; DNA/RNA), it'll accordingly infect or not infect that organism. read more