Hospital Stages - Department of Health

Signs and symptoms of atypical pneumonia are generally less severe than those of typical pneumonia (Coughlin, 2007). Fever, headache, malaise, a hacking dry cough, Myalgia, diarrhea and Pharyngitis are the classic presentation representing a viral or atypical pneumonia. Some patients with viral pneumonia develop a severe earache or cutaneous rash. ................
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