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Why can't we use antibiotic to treat the disease caused by viruse?
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∙ 11y ago
Antibiotics can't be used to treat viral diseases or conditions because antibiotics just aren't affective against viruses.
Bacteria and viruses are different things. Bacteria are living things that can be killed, they reproduce asexually via binary fission. Basically that means that one bacteria cell splits into two and then those two turn into separate bacterial cells.
Viruses replicate themselves by injecting a healthy cell with their DNA or RNA. One of the weird things about viruses, though, is that they are not alive.
Antibiotics, depending on the specific antibiotic, are designed either to kill bacteria, or prevent them from multiplying. However, since viruses and bacteria are completely different even down to the way they reproduce, antibiotics are useless against viruses.
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