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Why are antibiotics not effective for viral disease?

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Anti-bacterial/Antibiotic medicines block the bacteria from forming a cell wall. As there is no cell wall of a bacteria, it is unable to divide which leads to their termination. This functionality is provided by the antibiotics without affecting the cells of the host’s body. In the case of viral diseases, the virus uses the cells of an infected person as the host and uses their biochemical mechanisms to sustain and divide as the viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own. And the viruses are not using these biochemical pathways so antibiotics have no effect on them as these medicines only work against bacterial diseases.

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