What to do when viruses come?

Answer 1

For many viruses, you can take preventive measures and get vaccinated in advance (like seasonal flu vaccinations, mumps and measles), so you would need to do nothing if that type of virus from the vaccine enters your environment in the wild. You would be protected by the inoculation.

Other preventive measures also can protect you, such as frequent hand washing and other germ fighting measures.

For some viruses, there are available (by prescription) anti-viral medicines that can be effective to control symptoms and speed the recovery when you are infected. They are not for prevention.

Don't forget that antibiotics do nothing but waste your money if you take them for a viral illness, and they also include side effects and other risks and should never be taken unless absolutely needed for bacterial illnesses. There is no equivalent to antibiotics for viruses, since they are not subject to the effects of poison (which is essentially what antibiotics are to bacteria). Bacteria are alive and can be killed with poisons. Viruses are not alive and our body must heal us when we are infected with viruses by immune system responses and actions to prevent the virus particles from entering our cells. We are unable to affect viruses with chemicals and poisons the same way as bacteria.

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