It is difficult to create drugs that kill viruses because they use the body's own cells for replication, making selective targeting challenging.
Developing drugs to kill viruses is difficult because viruses replicate using the body's own cells, making it hard to target the virus without harming host cells.
| Front | Why is it very hard to produce drugs to kill viruses? |
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| Back | Viruses reproduce using our own body cells, which makes it very difficult to develop drugs that destroy just the virus without killing the body's cells. |
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