Flu Questions

How does the flu build a resistance to drug treatment?
Answer: the flu builds a resistance by constantly changing leaving the stronger version the stronger version is more resistant. The stronger versions, which are, resist common medication, and then it doubles and changes further, which increases the resistance even more. Also the flu that was not resistant changes as well. What they change into can also become resistant.


2. Why is the build up of resistance to an anti-flu drug referred to as evolving?
Answer: Because the disease constantly changes so the medication doesn’t work anymore because it has gotten use to one type of virus and then when it constantly changes it is evolving because different types of medications are going to be used for the new virus’s. Everytime a new sickness comes along you will have to be prescribed a different drug because it is a different form of something that you have had once before and your body has became immune to the old drug so it won’t recognize the new one.













This article named Tamiflu and Relenza as anti-flu medications. How do these drugs “get rid” of the flu virus?
Answer: tamiflu interferes with the flu virus scientists and doctors think that tamiflu works in the human body by inhibiting an enzyme called neuraminidase. When the neuraminidase is blocked form working it is hard for the flu virus to release its babies into our bloodstream making it harder for the flu to be transported through the circulatory system. Relenza attack the flu virus and prevent it from spreading through your body, Relenza treats the flu by attacking the virus that causes the flu.


Can antibiotics be prescribed to treat the flu? Why or Why not?
Answer: No antibiotics cannot be prescribed for the flu because it is like a common cold and antibiotics can not be used to treat it but antiviral medications can help to get rid of it. The reason that antibiotics can not be used to treat the flu is because the immune system has to get rid of it by it’s self-the reason being is that the virus will have to run its length and antibiotics cannot fight against it but the immune system will.