…if this is an advertisement for your antibiotics, you do realize those are ineffective against viruses, yeah?
fungal infections too
That’s because of overuse, and evolution.
Pretty sure antibiotics don’t work against viruses at all.
Science alert:
Antibiotics don’t work against viruses because viruses aren’t technically living things to begin with. Antibiotic resistance is a problem associated with overuse of antibiotics on bacteria.
While this statement is correct, a bacteriophage is not an antibiotic, but rather, an alternative to them.
Bacteriophages themselves are viruses that destroy bacteria; phage therapy (the act of administering engineered bacteriophages to kill bacteria in a patient) has seen medical applications ever since the 1920s. However, lack of understanding surrounding bacteriophages and ease of access of antibiotics hampered the use of phage therapy until around post-Cold War.
In medicine today, phage therapy is seeing increased interest from the scientific community as bacteriophages entirely circumvent antibiotic resistance. Phage therapy is most effective in combination with antibiotics, especially given bacteriophages themselves are not bacteria.
This being said, bacteriophages have no effect on viruses.
liberals destroyed facts and logic style We now return to your scheduled programming.
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funny meme
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