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Is mononucleosis a kissing disease

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Anonymous

18y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Contact with the saliva of an infected person transmits the disease, that is why it is called the kissing disease. It is really an infection- viral. There is no treatment that is effective and it takes 6 month to recover. You get fatigued, swollen lymph nodes, and cold like symptoms.

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