"Are you going out like that? You'll catch your death of a cold." Oh, come on! Everyone knows you can't catch a cold from the cold ~ that's just an old wives' tale. Shows how much we know. A new study seems to show that our antiviral defense cells, like those in the nose, don't work as well in colder temperatures: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cold-coddles-colds?tgt=nr
So, while we all start knitting nose warmers, we still need to remember those other important rules, like frequent hand-washing: http://www.saga.co.uk/health/body/howtoavoidacold.aspx
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