Beating the common cold has been a massive problem in medicine.
Most colds are caused by rhinoviruses – nothing to do with the big, grey animal, in case you wondered. Rhin means nose – and comes from Greek!
There are around 160 different types of rhinoviruses and they mutate, or change, so easily that medicine hasn’t been able to keep up to stop us getting colds. The viruses are also really good at hiding from our immune system.
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