1.   Although vaccines can prevent viral infections, drugs do not cure any viral disease the way antibiotics can cure some bacterial infections.

2.   Also, it is a bacterial disease cured by antibiotics.

3.   Antibiotics will not cure colds and flu.

4.   Antibiotics would not cure the earaches, or the bladder and kidney infections.

5.   He was cured by antibiotics but was afflicted by additional contacts, causing him to suffer a chronic urinary tract infection.

6.   If the result is positive, antibiotics can cure the infection, and, if given early, prevent complications.

7.   If they invade through a break in the skin, the result is cutaneous anthrax, which often goes away without treatment and is easily cured by antibiotics.

8.   Milder cases of skin anthrax may have gone undetected because they can be cured by antibiotics, even if the drugs are prescribed for some other reason.

9.   Old-timers reminisce about the time when many people died of old age and when cheap antibiotics cured most sickness.

10.   Antibiotics can cure the disease, but they must be taken daily for months, and an incomplete course of treatment can produce drug-resistant disease.