INFECTION AND RESPONSE - Antibiotics and Painkillers

Question 1

Antibiotics

Answer 1

Medicines that help to cure bacterial disease by killing infective bacteria inside the body but they cannot destroy viruses e.g Penicillin

Question 2

Painkillers

Answer 2

Used to treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill pathogens

Question 3

Antibiotic Resistance

Answer 3

When antibiotics are overused it means the bacteria has evolved so that they were no longer killed by the antibiotic e.g MRSA