Question

Why making anti-viral medicines is harder than making anti-bacterial medicines ?

Also Is Virus a living parasites?​

Answer 1

Because antivirals can damage host cells where the viruses reside.

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all viruses are obligate parasites,that is they lack metabolic machinery of their own to generate energy or to synthesize proteins,so they depend on host cells to carry out these vital functions...

Answer 2

Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own. They make use of host machinery which replicates. So it is very much difficult to find the targets where these drugs get interfered by not making any harm to the host. Thus, it is not easy to design an antiviral drug with high safety and effectiveness.

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And i would say virus is a parasites but not a living parasite according to md