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Why are illnesses caused by viruses more difficult for doctors to treat then illnesses caused by bacteria?
Note: THIS IS A GUESS. I'M NOT SURE, SO DOCS: PLEASE DON'T MOB ME!Because you can't kill viruses. I'll explain. Bacteria are alive. You can kill them and they will go away. However, viruses are like robots; you can shut them off, but they can come back again over and over and over and they never stop coming back. EVER. :( Thus, as you can't kill them, they are harder to stop.
Which chickens are immune to viruses and diseases?
Fayoumi. They can fight off any bacterial infection.Count Olaf
How are vaccines important in preventing virual disease?
Not all vaccines are for viruses. There are other diseases that are caused by bacteria. Both types will fight off the microbe that they were made to fight. Not so long ago, many children died of what we call childhood diseases. There was nothing that would prevent them.
What in your circulatory system helps to prevent you from getting sick?
your white blood cells. they fight off germs, diseases, and viruses.
Can viruses kill cells?
Yes. Viruses' only aim is to reproduce; if they invade a cell and are not killed off, they will continue replicating themselves until the cell bursts.
Are diseases abiotic?
Right now scientists say that viruses contain a few characteristics of living life, but also don't fufil all characteristics of living life. Right now viruses are considered abiotic. Viruses show living characteristics in some cases while in other cases they do not. For example, viruses can multiply only inside another living cell and not when free in nature. Because of its parasitic like existence, viruses are considered as living but the characteristics of viruses outside a living cell put it as non-living. As of now, viruses are considered as a link between the biotic and abiotic world.
What does rabbits cause?
They are pests and there has been 2 diseases going around to kill them off
How is smoking responsible for diseases and some pollution?
Smoking sends off the smoke, and many diseases are caused by any smoking at all.
If a patient has measles why would antibiotics not work?
Antibiotics can only work against bacterium, whereas measles are caused by a virus.
Will eliminating the supply of oxygen from the air kill off a virus?
No, eliminating the supply of oxygen from the air would not kill off a virus because viruses do not require or consume oxygen to survive. Viruses need a living host cell to replicate and cannot survive for long outside of a host organism.
What effect does an antibiotic have on a viral disease?
Because antibiotics kill infections and viruses are not infections.Antibiotics have no effect when applied to viruses because antibiotics only effect on infections caused by bacteria (bacterium-single form). Viruses have their own "anti-virus" medicines, too. xD
How does disease relate to science?
biology is the study of living organisms. in lots of the cases, diseases are caused by other living organisms (except for viruses which are classified as micro-organisms). viruses will kill cells in our body, making us sick, but mostly the sick feeling and fever is just our body trying to fend it off. fungi will also grow on living cells, using up their share of nutritions, therefore killing it. bacterias, although some are helpful also cause disease in our body by giving off toxins (poison, acid)
