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Correct. Northward of 90% of all URTIs (Upper Respiratory Tract Infections) are caused by viruses and never develop secondary bacterial infections. [1]

If you have a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection you usually feel much less well than when the average viral infection.

The usually route of antibiotics appearing to work is that a course of antibiotics is usually 10 days, by which time you're mostly over the viral infection anyway.

1.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098742/



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