How does Bacteria differ from Viruses?

A virus can be treated with anti-viral drugs to shorten the duration of it's outbreak but there are no known cures for viruses (at least none that I am aware of). Bacteria can be treated with antibiotics to held rid you of the infection and possibly keep you from getting reinfected. This is just my summarized version of it though.

Bacteria are single-celled microorganisms that thrive in many different types of environments. Some varieties live in extremes of cold or heat, while others make their home in people's intestines, where they help digest food. Most bacteria cause no harm to people.

Viruses are even smaller than bacteria and require living hosts — such as people, plants or animals — to multiply. Otherwise, they can't survive. When a virus enters your body, it invades some of your cells and takes over the cell machinery, redirecting it to produce the virus.

Perhaps the most important distinction between bacteria and viruses is that antibiotic drugs usually kill bacteria, but they aren't effective against viruses. In some cases, it may be difficult to determine whether bacteria or a virus is causing your symptoms. Many ailments — such as pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhea — can be caused by either type of microbe.

Viruses must have a living host to multiply whereas most beacteria can grow on non-living surfaces. * Viruses invade their host's cells and turn the cell's genetic material from its normal function to producing the virus itself. * Bacteria carry all the machinery needed for their growth and multiplication, while Viruses carry mainly information - for example, DNA or RNA, packaged in a protein and/or membranous coat.

Bacteria, on the other hand, harness the host cell's machinery to reproduce. In a sense, Viruses are not truly "living," but are essentially information (DNA or RNA) that float around until they encounter a suitable living host.

Bacteria are single-celled organisms, capable of reproducing on their own. Different kinds of bacteria thrive in a variety of different environments (our bodies being just one of many examples), but they are all "alive" by anyone's definition of the word. Because they are alive, they can be killed.

Therefore, in addition to your body's own immune responses to get rid of bacteria, you can kill them with antibiotics. Viruses are not really living organisms (my high school biology classes stressed that there was a debate about whether we could actually say they were alive). They are bits of DNA or RNA inside a protein shell (much smaller than bacteria), but they cannot reproduce by themselves.

That's why they infect your cells: to take over the structures that your cells use to reproduce and use them to make more viruses. Since they're not technically alive, they can't be killed. So antibiotics do not work on viruses and taking them is a waste of time.

You just have to let your immune system track them down and get rid of them.

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