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In [[Generation II]], if a Pokémon with any stage of Pokérus, active or cured, is traded back to [[Generation I]] or withdrawn from Stadium 2 by a Generation I game, all traces of that Pokémon having had the Pokérus will disappear. This is because a Pokémon's Pokérus status is not saved in any form in the Generation I games. | In [[Generation II]], if a Pokémon with any stage of Pokérus, active or cured, is traded back to [[Generation I]] or withdrawn from Stadium 2 by a Generation I game, all traces of that Pokémon having had the Pokérus will disappear. This is because a Pokémon's Pokérus status is not saved in any form in the Generation I games. | ||
Pokérus is an example of a symbiotic virus (While seemingly oxymoronic, a "virus" is classified by infecting cells, rather than negative effects). Viruses with possible positive effects exist in the real world <ref>{{vcite journal |author=Barton ES, White DW, Cathelyn JS, ''et al.'' |title=Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection |journal=Nature |volume=447 |issue=7142 |pages=326–9 |year=2007 |pmid=17507983 |doi=10.1038/nature05762}}</ref> but ''all'' of Pokérus's known effects are symbiotic. | |||
===In Generation II=== | ===In Generation II=== | ||