Sniper 751, I thank you.
That's why doctors in the 80's prescribed Antibiotics with a suspected viral infection.
The way you tested for bacterial or viral infections was a simple white blood cell count. Centrifuge a blood sample and look at how thick the white line was and prescribe accordingly. My doctor did erythromycin for viral and penicillin for bacterial unless allergic then erythromycin. But in any case when you went to the doctor for sniffles you walked out with antibiotics.
I should have had in there a line on virus' making a shorter line of white blood cells as it compromised the immune system and left people vulnerable to anything. Must people with AIDS died of something else, not AIDS that's what left the system weak and allowed common bacteria and such kill.
…dangling from a rope.