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If immune sys can't kill comm cold virus it will likely lead to bacterial infctn that can be handled with antibiotics but what happens to the viruses?
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Even if your were : to develop a secondary bacterial infection , the viral infection would likely just resolve.
Answered 9/11/2017
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