Question

What are antibiotics? Why are they not effective against a viral disease?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Viruses are different to bacteria; they have a different structure and a different way of surviving. Viruses don't have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics; instead they are surrounded by a protective protein coat.

Antibiotics damage the cell wall of living organism leading to its death. The viruses do not have a cell wall. Antibiotics are produced by bacteria and fungi that treat bacterial infections, not viral infections because viruses use host cells to perform their activities. So, they cannot kill viruses. That's why antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases.

Answer 2

Explanation:

a medicine which is used for destroying bacteria and curing infection is called antibiotics