Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Viral Infectious Diseases

Viral infections are hard to treat because viruses live inside the body cells. They are protected from medicines, which usually move through bloodstream. Antibiotics do not work for viral infections. There are a few antiviral medicines available. Vaccines can help prevent you from getting many viral diseases. Viruses are capsular with genetic material inside .They are tiny, much smaller than bacteria .Viruses cause familiar infectious disease such as the common cold flu and warts. They also cause severe illness such as HIV, smallpox and haemorrhagic fever