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Originally Posted by BerrieK
Dave, my understanding is that bacteria and viruses have different molecular and protein structures coupled with different mechanisms of infection; as a consequence antibiotics will have no effect on a virus anyway (the antibiotics prevent genesis of cell walls in the bacteria BUT viruses don't have cell walls, as far as I understand). So I guess it's code brown!
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Your understanding is basically correct. There are anti-viral drugs, but these are very different to antibiotics.