Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because

  • A
    Viruses make use of host machinery
  • B
    Viruses are on the border line of living and nonliving
  • C
    Viruses have a protein coat
  • D
    Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own

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