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A member asked:
How likely is it that a tonsil infection(i now have a white film on my tonsils and doctor says its bacterial) w/out oral sores/itching is oral herpes?
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Herpes simplex: This sounds like an unlikely source of your tonsillar infection. Without seeing it, cannot rule anything out, but this does not usually occur.
Answered 1/5/2019
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