why are antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases
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Curing a viral infection. Antibiotics are useless against viral infections. This is because viruses are so simple that they use their host cells to perform their activities for them. So antiviral drugs work differently to antibiotics, by interfering with the viral enzymes instead.
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⇒ Antibiotics are commonly use to block biochemical pathways which is important for bacteria.
⇒ Many Bacteria make cell wall to protect themselves.
⇒ The antibiotic penicillin blocks the bacterial processes that build the cell wall.
⇒ As a result, The growing bacteria are unable to make cell wall and die easily.
⇒ But viruses do not use this path ways therefore antibiotic do not work against viral infection.
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