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What Are The Symptoms Of Potential Swine Flu?
Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...my brother is suffering from fever ,cough and pain in throat since 3-4 days.he is sneezing too...all his test for malaria and viral are negative.should we go 4 swine flu test??
Mon, 2 May 2016
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This could be flu and he needs testing for that, but it could also be a bacterial bronchitis or even pneumonia so he also needs a chest x-ray and a sputum culture to see if he needs a course of antibiotics
This could be flu and he needs testing for that, but it could also be a bacterial bronchitis or even pneumonia so he also needs a chest x-ray and a sputum culture to see if he needs a course of antibiotics
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