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Suggest why a doctor would not give antibiotics to a person suffering from the influenza virus.
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Suggest why a doctor would not give antibiotics to a person suffering from the influenza virus.

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Viruses replicate by invading the cells inside your body, which the antibiotics cannot enter as destroying the virus would also destroy your cells and make you even sicker.
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