 [ Symptoms ] my son is 10 days in icu is it normal to cure infection for so long after suboccipital surgery [ Disease ] bronchitis is not contagious you cannot transmit bronchitis to someone else but the pathogens viruses bacteria fungus etc that are capable of causing bronchitis can be transmitted to others but exposure to these pathogens does not mean that the exposed person will contract bronchitis they may only get a simple cold or nothing at all you are on an antibiotic that may or may not help bronchitis since it is just a clinical guess that the cause is bacterial