What makes virus so much difficult to treat than bacteria?

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Why do we have a lot of antibiotics, but few antiviral meds? I’m not even considering HIV, because I know it’s has a different structure.

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Bacteria is alive. Things that are alive can be killed. Once dead, bacteria isn’t harmful.

Viruses are not living things. So you cant kill them. You have to *destroy* them. Or remove them from the body. Methods of destroying viruses are not great. And typically need to be individualized to the individual virus.

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