Explain why viral infections cannot be treated with antibiotics 1 mark
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Antibiotics work by targeting specific structures or processes unique to bacteria, such as their cell walls or metabolic pathways. Viruses, however, lack these structures and instead use the host cell's machinery to replicate, meaning antibiotics have no target to act upon.
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