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Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?

  • Written by Christine Carson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia
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As the end of the second world war neared, mass production of the newly developed antibiotic penicillin enabled life-saving treatment of bacterial infections in wounded soldiers. Since then, penicillin and many other antibiotics have successfully treated a wide variety of bacterial infections.

But antibiotics don’t work...

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