[central_va]

When a virus infects a cell, it turns it into a factory for making new viruses.

What happens to the cell, does it eventually die from all of the disturbance caused by the viral invasion?

[rightwingcrazy]

“What happens to the cell, does it eventually die from all of the disturbance caused by the viral invasion?”

Yes. Nasty buggers.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I think the infected cell “explodes” with lots of copies of the virus inside, releasing them to the host.