Why are antibiotics not affect for viral disease
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Curing a viral infection. Antibiotics areuseless against viral infections. This isbecause 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 work against metabolically active organisms and viruses are essentially dead until they hijack a cell's processes.
So, antibiotics aren't effective against only some viruses, they are effective against none of them. Anti-virals are the medications that work against viruses, and they actually work on the cells of the body and not on the viruses themselves.
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