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Posted
Sat 12 Apr 2008 6:26pm
Okay, I think I'm back...
*checks self*
Yeah, I'm here.
I've been out of it for the past few days. I caught a cold somewhere between Tuesday and Thursday and most of this past week has been a blur.
Yet, oddly, I've managed to get in a good majority of my "30 minutes of walking a day" goal in even though I was sick ...
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Posted
Fri 05 Dec 2008 4:25am
I have a cold and I'm rather enjoying it. I sneeze and people say "Bless you." My throat is sore, so I take cough drops. When people see the wastebasket full of tissues, they know I have a cold. It's visible and understandable. Everyone has had a cold. They know what that feels like. They know what to do. Take Vitamin C. Keep Kleenex handy. Cover ...
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Posted
Sun 02 Nov 2008 2:52pm
University of Calgary scientist confirms that it is how our immune system responds, not the rhinovirus itself, that causes cold symptoms. Of more than 100 different viruses that can cause the common cold, human rhinoviruses are the major cause.
The research, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, is the first study
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Posted
Fri 09 Jul 2010 8:05am
. The patients had a median of 5 episodes of respiratory infection, this being significantly more than in the spouses who served as controls. Rhinovirus was the most common virus, and it was positive in one third of the infections. Interestingly, some patients had recurrent and persistent rhinovirus infections. Rhinovirus was found both as a sole pathogen and together
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Posted
Mon 18 Jan 2010 10:04pm
CNN Health Minute
Common colds — also known as human rhinovirus — affect billions of people worldwide every year and have more than 100 different... for rhinovirus by mapping each strain’s entire genome.
Now, those same scientists have found some interesting things about all those different strains.
Read the complete article at CNN
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Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 3:42pm
today, many people think you get a cold by being cold. You don’t.
You catch colds from rhinoviruses entering your body through your eyes or nose. Shake hands with someone... known cold preventative is frequent hand washing and keeping your hands off your face.
A 2006 study in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine found rhinoviruses on 63
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Posted
Mon 29 Dec 2008 4:38pm
infected with a rhinovirus, which is responsible for about a third of all colds. Another group of 10 young men and women served as controls; they were not infected... "infected volunteers with a rhinovirus. This time, the subjects were 34 young men and women who were randomly assigned to a group that would exercise with their colds and 16 others
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