Give any four reasons to justify why it is more difficult to prepare antiviral medicines than antibiotics.
(N/A) $(i)$ Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own.
$(ii)$ They enter the host cells to replicate.
$(iii)$ They use the host's cellular machinery for their own life processes.
$(iv)$ There are very few virus-specific targets available to aim at for drug development.
$(ii)$ They enter the host cells to replicate.
$(iii)$ They use the host's cellular machinery for their own life processes.
$(iv)$ There are very few virus-specific targets available to aim at for drug development.
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