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Why don’t antibiotics work against viruses?

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1. Why don’t antibiotics work against viruses?

Antibiotics target structures like bacterial cell walls, which viruses simply don’t have, since a virus isn’t a complete, independent cell like bacteria

Antibiotics work equally well against both bacteria and viruses

Viruses have identical cell walls to bacteria, so antibiotics should work but don’t for unknown reasons

Antibiotics only target viral structures, never bacterial ones

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