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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Colds & toothbrushes
- Message-ID: <17977@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:07:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.084958.557@news.wesleyan.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.084958.557@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
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- >"reinfect" yourself with your own cold virus, because the very thing that is
- >making it go away is the fact that your body is developing antibodies to it.
- >You won't catch the same virus again unless your immune system is compromised,
- >though you might catch one of the other cold viruses, to which you have not
- >developed antibodies.
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- This is correct. Once you have had the one of hundreds of viruses that cause
- colds, you are immune to it, probably for life. THis is one
- explanation given for why older people don't have many colds
- compared to children. I myself rarely get a cold except when
- I travel to Europe or Asia, where I presumably encounter unfamiliar
- viruses.
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