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How do viral infections go away?
So my biology teacher says that unlike antibiotics which kill bacteria, there is no medicine that can treat and kill viral infections and that the medicines we take simply help treat the symptoms.
My question is that when we do get a viral infection, how does our immune system kill it and get rid of it? And how does it "remember" the virus so it can recognize it the next time we get the infection?
Thanks for the help!
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
by PCM
- ?Lv 45 years ago
maximum viruses do no longer objective life-long infections. there's no specific intent why some do and a few do no longer, they simply stepped forward specific life cycles that are nicely adequate to stay in populations. As an prolonged way as viruses going away, they go away frequently by using actuality that of your immune suggestions-set. HIV infects immune cells, and could stay away from immunity on the comparable time destroying the cells that objective immunity.
