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When a cold turns into a chest infection is it from the same virus or different one.
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Cold: Both. Sometimes you have a viral infection and then get suprainfected with a bacteria. Sometimes you had a bronchitis/infection which was bacterial and did not resolve on its own/or on the initial meds ( immune system takes care up to a point, therefore even before antibiotics not everyone died from infections) and worsened and needs a change in treatment. Hope this helps
Answered 1/5/2019
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