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What are the different symptoms of a viral infection and a bacterial infection?
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Not much difference: Generally people recover from viral infections a little faster but that is certainly not always the case. Influenza and other serious viruses can take quite a while to recover from. Symptoms depend on where the virus is invading and can be very similar to infections. Bacterial infections tend to be more localized.
Answered 7/1/2013
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