COMMON+COLD+by+Philipp

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My project is about the common cold. The Common cold is called the common cold because it is extremely common and there are over 200 types of cold viruses. In this Wiki i will state the causes, effects, treatments, preventions and more on the common cold. http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:kUVDu9B93aHeIM:http


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Some Facts about the common cold: 1. Healthy people with normal immune systems are highly susceptible to cold virus infection once the virus enters the nose. In volunteers studies, approximately 95% of normal adults became infected when virus was dropped into the nose. 2. Of people who become infected, only 75% develop symptoms with a cold. The other 25% have virus growing in the nose but have no symptoms. They have an "asymptomatic infection". 3. Why people sometimes become infected but do not develop cold symptoms is a mystery. One idea is that the person may not be producing the normal amount of certain inflammatory mediators, the natural body chemicals which cause cold symptoms. If this theory is correct, then people with active immune systems may be more prone to developing cold symptoms than people with less active immune systems!

