Why is tuberculosis an important infectious disease?

Why do we learn how to calculate the distance of a parabola in 10th grade but not what a 401k is?

Will treating a viral infection with antibiotics affect the course of the infection? a) no; antibiotics work by inhibiting enzymes specific to bacteria. antibiotics have no effect on eukaryotic or virally encoded enzymes.b) no; antibiotics do not kill viruses because viruses do not have dna or rna.c) yes; antibiotics activate the immune system, and this decreases the severity of the infection. d) yes; antibiotics can prevent viral entry into the cell by binding to host-receptor proteins.

How does food play a part in our culture (us culture) and other cultures around the world?