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Does influenza cause microbes

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13y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

No, it is the other way around, the microbes cause the influenza. The flu is caused by viruses. Viruses are examples of pathogens/microbes* just as bacteria are.

*Some microbiologists do not consider viruses "microbes" since they are not actually living organisms and since they are sub-microscopic particles.

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