Why are antibiotics not effective for viral diseases?
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As most of viruses have RNA as a constituent and RNA has a very typicall behaviour of modifying itself so it does not remain in the same form in which which in which it enters the host body also antibiotics effective for bacterial diseases biotics means organism with life as viruses do not have a life outside the human body but bacteria do have a life outside as well as inside the human host or other or any other host that is why antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases as a viral genome makes it makes modification and antibiotics are target specific
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Antibiotics are useless against viral diseases, considering that viruses are very simple as compared to bacteria. They use their host cells to perform their action for them. So antibiotics cannot work on them as they are designed to kill bacteria. Antiviral medicines are used instead as they directly interfere with the viral enzymes and destroy the virus.
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