Why is it hard to treat a viral disease?

Answer 1

That is true but viral infections stay dormant in the body until the nucleic acids can enter a cell then spreading itself throughout the body. Viral infections can not be cured unlike bacterial infections. Bacterial infections enter the body by air... thus entering the bloodstream going to any part of the body. The bacteria may even have a specific place in the blood it may want to go. Antibiotics were made to cure bacterial infections to stop replicating, growing or to even die. Therefor Viral infections can not be cured making the hard to treat then bacterial infections

Answer 2

Because viruses reproduce and metabolize energy by attaching to host cells (normal cells in the body) and essentially draining them. So a treatment that attacks the virus will also be attacking a normal cell, thus making you sicker. That's why vaccinations are the best defense against viruses. It prevents them from attaching to host cells in the first place.

Answer 3

Viral infections are caused by viruses, which are not living organisms. They are a protein mass with RNA attached to it. Antibiotics do not work on viruses because they are not living, and the only way to be cured of a virus is to wait it out and have your white blood cells and antibodies fight it off.

Answer 4

because they infect all kinds of things that is hard to treat

Answer 5

Bacteria and viruses are both microscopic and therefore difficult to see, and they can produce very similar symptoms.