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Why can antibiotics only kill bacteria?


(not viruses)

Antibiotics are designed to explode cell walls, and viruses have no cell walls.

Why doesn't the influenza vaccine (flu shot) protect you against stomach flu?

Because they are different viruses.

Why do pigs roll in mud?

Because it protects them from the sun.

Why are the 1980s so important in epidemiology.

Because they were the golden age of antibiotics when they were all created.