 [ Symptoms ] my husband has had a fever and a cough for over 10days now not pneumonia had xray 4 days ago what could it be  his fever ranges between 100 103 he is coughing up lots of mucous but does not feel any sinus congestion no runny nose he has been on an antibiotic for 5days now he says it is helping a little but it is not taking care of the fever or cough just making the mucous less green he had a chest x ray 5days ago but it did not show pnumonia should he be x rayed again he is also very pale in color as well as is experiencing dizziness headache and nausea had a cbc blood work came back normal [ Disease ] most helpful answer it could be viral instead of bacterial were his symptoms different when he had the xray if it was bacterrial generally the complete blood count would show high white blood cells has he had any cultures taken marieh9