BI-1480
Antibiotics
Biology · Secondary 4 · Medium · Antibiotics
A patient with bacterial pneumonia is treated with antibiotics. Another patient with influenza is offered a flu vaccine instead of antibiotics. Why is this appropriate?
- Antibiotics kill bacteria but do not affect viruses, while vaccines prepare the immune system to fight viral infections.
- Antibiotics are always more dangerous than vaccines, so they are avoided for influenza.
- Vaccines directly kill bacteria and viruses in the bloodstream, unlike antibiotics.
- Viruses are too small to be treated in any way, so only vaccines work for them.
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