Why is it useless to take antibiotics for viruses?

Question

wow all these answers are terrible

Answer 1

Anti-biotics usually work on some part of the cell membrane of bacteria to interfere with some cellular process.  Viruses are just a protein coat and nucleic acid.  There are no cell membranes to interact with.

Answer 2

They occupy the cells and also viruses never leave the system. Its why you usually have these things once if you have more than its relapses.

Answer 3

Check out this link, it is too long to write on here, very easy to understand once you have read it.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/200...

Answer 4

because virus aren't bacteria they occupy and hijack your cells.