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Do you know are ear infections contagious?
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No: An upper respiratory infection may set up the conditions favorable to an ear infection and that can be contagious.However, the ear infection is generally due to germs already present in the patients airway and throat that take the opportunity to cause the ear infection. That germ is not passed from one patient to another.
Answered 1/14/2014
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