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When your tonsils are swollen can somebody else catch it?
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Infection?: Swollen tonsils are not necessarily communicative. But if you have either a viral or bacterial or viral/bacterial infection of the tonsils, then, of course, you can spread that infection to somebody else by sputum, or nasal secretions.
Answered 10/25/2015
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