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Heavy Coughing Can Cause You To Lose Your Head

Notice how this guy is coughing a lot into his hand? And then he drinks out of a plastic water bottle and spreads all his germs onto the bottle. Imagine if you had to pick up that bottle, maybe to hand it to him or to even throw it away.

Can you imagine how many germs would be transferred to your own hand?

And if passing along germs isn't bad enough, check out what happens to this poor guy's head after a coughing fit. You certainly don't want to catch that so learn to cough into your elbow!

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