Do your kids have winter-long runny noses and weeks-long coughs?
Mine aren't quite that bad, but they catch their share of colds,
especially in the winter. And while my kids' immunity is pretty strong
and they seem to bounce back to health in a matter of days, once
they've given their germs to me, it's all over. And as I'm sure you
all know, when Mama goes down, the family flounders.
Researchers
have decoded 99 strains of cold virus genome. In those 99 they've
found some common structures. Those common structures amount to a
common vulnerability in colds that might open the way to producing
drugs that might be effective against a broad range of cold viruses.
The reason given for not rushing into production on such a drug? It wouldn't be
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