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Article: It can be hard to tell if you have a cold, the flu, allergies, or worse.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 17, 1995
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It starts harmlessly enough: a tickle in the throat, a runny nose, a foreboding feeling that soon you'll be a coughing, sneezing horror from whom all will flee, clutching tissues to their faces and screaming, ``For the love of mankind, go home! Go home before you infect us all!''
You'll have a cold. Or, maybe it's the flu. Or, an allergy maybe.
But what do you care? By that point, you'll be sunk so deep in self-pity and despair that petty things like spreading disease will not matter to you. You're miserable. Isn't that enough?
Pull yourself together. You're not sick yet. And before you are, it'll be worthwhile to know your enemy. Although the symptoms ...