STOP & JOT: Parasites rarely kill their hosts right. Instead they keep them alive as long as needed. In fact, the best

parasites never actually kill their hosts, though they may weaken them significantly. Explain why parasites would not

want to kill their hosts immediately

Parasites would not want to kill their host cells immediately because they want their food source or keep getting food, not to kill their food source (host cell). Parasites live on another living host cell for their survival, they depend on host organisms to gets an energy source, without the host cell they can't live, develop and multiply.

Mostly, if the host cell dies then the parasite also can't able to grow or reproduce and it will also die. So that they don't want to kill their host's cell immediately.