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Answer and explain your answer: antibiotics can treat bacteria or virus causing illnesses?

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Answer: Antibiotics treat only bacteria.

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Antibiotics are used for the treatment of diseases that are caused by bacteria only. They can't be used for treatment of illnesses caused by viruses.

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Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because bacteria and viruses have different mechanisms and machinery to survive and replicate. The antibiotic has no “target” to attack in a virus.

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