Dr David Miles from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Everybody knows what a cold feels like: miserable. The first cold virus was detected in a milk tooth shed over 30,000 years ago and ever since the common cold has been a bane. Yet while sore throats and blocked noses are annoyingly familiar, the processes that lead to them are not widely known and often misunderstood. Processes like the misdirected immune response that makes us ill with a cold instead of protecting us from illness. Like the way heating a building enhances cold virus transmission. Like the way most cold viruses can only exist at all thanks to the society we’ve built over the last few millenia.And, most importantly what we can do about them.

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