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Q: Kissing And Incubation Time to Transfer Germs - When Safe?
asked by: guardianangel1423 on January 21st, 2006
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When one gets a cold or flu, how much time should pass before you kiss another person? A friend asked me.
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Wanna be Dr.
replied on January 26th, 2006
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Just to let you know that being around the person alone is transferring the virus onto the other person, although kissing increases the rate at which the germs are passed over, I would say a standard 3 - 5 days, excluding the incubation time of the virus, but then again you should consider, that after the viral infection , bacterial infections might take over.. So I would say kissing is fine during the 4th or 5th day of continuos medication and resting.
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