antibiotic vs antiviral drugs my purpose to remove the use of antibiotics for dual infection is to reduce confusion and not foment the popular misconception of using abtibiotics to treat viral infections i am aware that the dual infection mentioned in this article implicitly referred to bacterial pneumoniae flu virus however one can not expect a casual reader to know that or to understand that the word pneumoniae could be a pathology or a bacteria especially without the article explaining this and while the article is focused on a virus if somebody feels the compelling need to compare treatments of viral pneumonia with a bacterial pneumonia fungal pneumonia parasitic pneumonia co infection please explain so in the apropriate section or article and remark that the use of antibiotics by itself is not effective against any virus especially the h n cheers