What makes virus so much difficult to treat than bacteria?

Question

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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Answer 1

A virus uses the hosts own abilities to create more viruses, the outer part of a virus acts like a key to the lock of a cell and opens up the cell so the virus can hide inside making the virus very difficult to hunt down and destroy.