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Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Queensland. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Why Has My Cold Dragged on So Long? And How Do I Know When It’s Morphed Into Something More Serious? Your Health

Why Has My Cold Dragged on So Long? And How Do I Know When It’s Morphed Into Something More Serious?

Common colds are caused by viruses. There are no effective cures, and antibiotics do not work on viruses, so treatment is targeted at managing the symptoms until your immune system has cleared the cold. So why might someone go to a doctor at all for a cold? Well, occasionally a cold might turn into something […]

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