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My teacher was teaching with pneumonia, i then got a cold and now no cold but still coughing a little, could it be asthma or something else? whats hap
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LIKELY A COLD: Pneumonia is rarely contagious and colds often cause enough injury to the airways that you may cough for a while before this clears. I wouldn't overthink this.
Answered 4/23/2016
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