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Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Cure a Virus With Antibiotics

If you are sick, you're going to want to cover your mouth when you sneeze and cough because that's just common decency. And antibiotics aren't going to help with a viral infection. That is obviously for bacterial infections only. But it occurred to me Chuck that if you could cure a viral infection in a bacteria with antibiotics, it would be kind of like euthanasia.

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