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How can you tell if you have a secondary infection with a cold?
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Fever and other symp: You will start with cold and than you may run fever and depending where the secondary infection is you will get symtoms, like ear ache for otitis medi, headache and fever with sinusitis, fever, cough and expectoration with pneumonia etc.
Answered 3/24/2020
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