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The Common Cold
The common cold is the most common of man’s illnesses. It is a viral disease transmitted by direct contact with an infected person, infected droplets, or infected articles. There are more than half a billion colds in the United States each year with an average of approximately 20 million t day in peak months. So states the October issue of the Virginii Health Bulletin, a monthly publication of the Virginia Department of Health.
The Bulletin reports that the average person gets a cold three times a year and does not builc immunity to colds because of the many different viruses which car cause them. Cold epidemic! usually follow a pattern whict begins in the early fall soon aftei schools open. This patterr consists of a second peak it
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