A doctor cannot give a person with measles a medicine that will cure the disease. Which statement explains why?
The virus is broken down by stomach acid before a medicine reaches it
The virus changes shape each time it passes to a different person
The virus is too small for the molecules in a medicine to attach to
The virus reproduces inside body cells, which a medicine would damage
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