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How to distinguish virus cough from cold?
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Spelling: Dictionary definitions. A cough is a noun and is the name for a symptom for the rapid expulsion of air and mucus from the lungs. There are many possible reasons that one can have a cough. One of them is an infection with any of a number of viruses. We have no meds to cure viral infections, just symptomatic relief. The old standby Jewish penicillin, chicken soup, works as well as any antibiotic 4 c
Answered 4/30/2016
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