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No. The flu is caused by influenza viruses.
The bacterium corynebacterium diphtheriae is the agent responsible for diphtheria which causes toxins to be released into your body. Symptoms of diphtheria are trouble breathing, croup-like cough, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, skin lesions, blue-colored skin, watery bloody nasal drainage, signs of infection with chills and fever, etc. The toxins these bacteria release can spread through the blood to other organs and cause serious damage, especially to the heart and kidneys. The nervous system can also be damaged and can result in temporary paralysis.
Thankfully, due to the use of vaccines to prevent diphtheria, there are now only around 5 cases of diphtheria a year in the US. The vaccines are good for 10 years, this is why you need a combined booster of tetanus and diphtheria vaccines every 10 years. Be sure you are up to date.
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Is diphtheria caused by a bacteria or a virus?
Diphtheria is an infectioncaused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Is Swine Flu a bacteria?
No. The flu is caused by a virus, not bacteria.
Is the flu a bacteria?
No, the flu is caused by a virus.
Is the Swine Flu caused by a virus or a bacteria?
It is caused by a virus called A-H1N1/09 influenza virus (aka swine flu).
How is the flu different from bacterial infections?
It is caused by viruses not by bacteria.
Can azithromycin cure the flu?
No. Azithromycin is an antibiotic. Antibiotics only work to kill or control growth of bacteria. The flu is not caused by bacteria, so antibiotics are ineffective to treat it. Influenza is caused by viruses.
Flu epidemic of 1918 more bacterial or a virus?
Flu is always caused a virus, not bacteria, so no flu epidemic will be due to a bacterial agent. This is true of the 1918 "Spanish Flu", it was caused by a virus.
Why don't doctors prescribe antibiotics if you have the flu?
antibiotics can be powerful.
Why can antibiotics treat flu-like symptoms caused by bacteria but are ineffective against flu?
Because the way antibiotics treat those symptoms is by killing the bacteria that cause them. If the symptoms are caused by viruses, then antibiotics can't help since they are not made to be able to "kill" viruses, just bacteria. Flu viruses are not really living organisms like bacteria are. So viruses must be inactivated rather than killed. Antibiotics can neither kill nor inactivate viruses. They are created to be used to kill only specific bacteria, they do not kill every kind of bacteria, either. That is why there are so many different kinds of antibiotics. Antibiotics can treat flu-like symptoms caused by some bacteria, because the right antibiotics can kill bacteria. So although flu like symptoms are similar to those of the flu, they are caused by different microbes so are not cured in the same way.
Which is not caused by bacteria?
Viruses (e.g. colds and flu), auto-immune diseases, and most forms of cancer are just a few examples of diseases that are not caused by bacteria.
Is the flu caused by a bacterial or viral infection?
Influenza is caused by a virus. its straight up a virus...
Is Swine Flu bacterial or viral?
I'm Pretty sure it's a virus but then again you can spread the flu by sneezing and things like that so I'm not sure By a Year 6 student
