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Old 01-19-2005, 09:33 PM   #11
Syrinx
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Originally Posted by elf
It's been said that the cold alone doesn't make you susceptable to viruses and bugs, rather, it's the repeated raising and lowering of surrounding temperatures as you go in and outside (without a coat on?) that lowers your resistance to such things...
Catching a cold probably has more to do with <a href="http://www.hhmi.org/cgi-bin/askascientist/highlight.pl?kw=&file=answers%2Fimmunology%2Fans_023.html">other things like proximity to people</a> than it does to the temperature.
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