Antibiotics vs viruses (F/H)

GCSE · Biology · AQA · B3.3 — Treating, curing and preventing disease: antibiotics and painkillers, drug discovery and clinical trials, monoclonal antibodies

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(F/H1) Explain why antibiotics cannot be used to treat the common cold.

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