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Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Diagnose a Cold

When I was sick a couple of weeks ago, I had some serious bright, bright, almost fluorescence yellow coming out. It's all very gratifying to get rid of either with your netty pot or just blowing your nose or whatever. You know, you can overdo that when you're sick, apparently. And what you probably did was inhaled a virus particle. That probably attached to your the linings of your nasal passages. In your sinuses. Because there's basically only three ways that a virus gets into your body. You inhale it. Or it enters through a break in the skin.

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