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1. How are infective diseases treated?
   • Infected diseases can be treated by antibiotics and other medicines such as fungal creams
2. How are drugs used to cure bacterial diseases?
   • Antibiotics, such as penicillin, are medicines that help to cure bacterial disease by killing infective bacteria inside the body.
3. Why are specific antibiotics prescribed by doctors?
   • Doctors prescribe specific antibiotics because specific bacteria must be treated by specific antibiotics
4. What has the impact of using antibiotics to treat infectious bacterial diseases?
   • The use of antibiotics has greatly reduced deaths from infectious bacterial diseases.
5. Why are doctors advised to not overly prescribe antibiotics?
   • Over prescription of antibiotics can lead to strains of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics
6. Why can antibiotics not be used to treat viral infections?
   • Antibiotics cannot be used to treat viral infections because they do not kill viral pathogens
7. Why do people take painkillers and other medicines when suffering from an infectious disease?
   • People take painkillers and other medicines to treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill pathogens.
8. Why are there no drugs to kill viruses? (vaccinations prevent infection)
   • There are no drugs to kill viruses that don't also damage the body's tissues.