About 1 week. Symptoms can last for 2-5 days. Best way to treat is a tablespoon of honey and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. Strep is similar.
If you have HIV a sore throat could last as little as one day to even a few weeks. HIV weakens your immune system that kills different viruses. Since a person with HIV has a weaker immune system it may take longer to heal.
Viruses can only live in living organisms (viruses themselves are not actually living). They might infect cells in our body, such as throat cells (infection of throat cells causes sore throat).
strep throat
usually strep throat lasts up to 10 to 14 days, depending on your antibiotic
72 hours
Your throat (and tonsils if you still have them) are a 'safety net' - catching viruses and other bugs that would make their way into your lungs. The inflammation in a sore throat is simply the body's defences fighting the infection.
Common cold viruses are the ones that most commonly cause phlegm in your throat.
Viruses cause 90-95% of all sore throats. Cold and flu viruses. adenoviruses. coxsackie virus. mononucleosis.
Sore throat caused by environmental conditions is not contagious.
No. Computer viruses are only called "viruses" by figurative analogy with biological viruses. And biological viruses (such as chickenpox, hepatitis, and the flu) are not the same as disease-causing bacteria (such as strep throat, tuberculosis, and lyme disease).
All Viruses
Beta haemolyticus streptococcus is well known. Other being diphtheria bacillus. There are many viruses which can cause throat infection.