The Truth behind the Cough

The common cold is the most common illness and the most contagious. Universities and medical science are always trying to come up with a cure, but try they do they have never succeeded. The common cold is pretty interesting and remarkable yet simple.

               

 First off getting infected is hard to prevent and is easy to do. You can catch a cold by getting contaminated fingers or touching even the smallest of droplets from coughs and sneezes (How Cold Virus Infecction Occurs). It doesn’t take much to get infected just a few tiny droplets that you don’t even know are there so they get ignored and you become infected.

               

 The simple infection matches how the cold virus works a cold is simple and like many other viruses that infect by direct contact. A cold is an illness when you become infected in your nose. It also affects you sinuses throat and ears (What a Common Cold Is). A cold usually passes in one to two weeks but can lead to bronchitis and other illnesses that last a lot longer (What a Common Cold Is).

                 

There are no proven cures for the common cold. There are medicines that are always advertised to cover the symptoms of a cold but never cure it. They might have found a cure for the common cold. It is a thing that can kill viruses even after the person becomes infected, but it is not yet tested on a cold virus and most likely will just cover symptoms (New Clue to Fighting Viruses ). On the news we see things like this all the time and this is from a couple years ago and there is no cure now so apparently it failed like all the others, and the common cold continues on its path of nasal destruction

                 

The common cold can’t be stopped. The cold virus rampages on even though people are working countless hours trying to conquer the virus, but the virus always wins. The common cold is intriguing and question raising although it is a simple virus that isn’t complicated to understand how it works. 

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"New Clue to Fighting Viruses ." 2 November 2010. NHS Choices. 19 April 2012 <http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/11November/Pages/common-cold-viruses-fought-in-cells.aspx>.

"What a Common Cold Is." 2007. Understandiong the Common Cold. 18 April 2012 <http://www.commoncold.org/undrstn2.htm>.