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How to Cure the Common Cold

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Colds are caused by viruses, which are notoriously difficult to treat.
Despite massive efforts to find a cure, the best treatment is to avoid
infection in the first place.

From Quick Guide: Children's Health
Difficulty: Moderately challenging
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    Become an infectious-disease expert. Study the most common cold viruses, including rhinovirus, parvovirus and parainfluenza virus. Understanding exactly how these nasty creatures behave is the key to stopping them.

  2. Step 2

    Secure a massive research grant and refine the latest medications. Oseltamivir phosphate and Amantadine are two drugs that show promise in fighting cold and flu viruses. Currently, their side effects are significant and their benefits limited, but research may improve these drugs.

  3. Step 3

    Focus on the most common infection route of cold viruses-- through the nasal cells. The nose is designed to receive chemical compounds from outside the body, and the nasal cells are full of receptor sites to which a virus can adhere. Blocking these receptor sites, without interfering with other body functions, may be the key to preventing infection.

Tips & Warnings
  • There's a Nobel Prize waiting for the first person who finds a true cure.
  • See 27 Prepare for Cold and Flu Season.
  • Some experts think there's no chance of defeating these viruses, primarily because they have too many variations. And even if an effective treatment is found, it may lose its effectiveness over time as new virus variants appear. This is not the sort of attitude that eradicated smallpox and other deadly diseases.

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on 6/13/2008 Wow. j2020j0908, you need to calm down. Genus didn't do anything wrong, and I think it may be useful for you to get some psychological help. If you'd like, you can let me know what area you live in, and I will find you a psychiatrist in your area. Also, there is nothing wrong with being jewish. Some of my nicest friends are jewish. I think you should know that your spelling is as atrocious as his, if not worse. (not irelavant, irrelevant, not grammer, grammar, not mispelled, misspelled). Having rich parents is not a crime, and if they are rich, that makes it highly unlikely that he is a bastard child, which means a child born out of marriage. Finally, people who swear hell, for christ's sake, bastard) and insult people (spoiled, idiot) generally have a lower intelligence quota.

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on 6/13/2008 Wow. j2020j0908, you need to calm down. Genus didn't do anything wrong, and I think it may be useful for you to get some psychological help. If you'd like, you can let me know what area you live in, and I will find you a psychiatrist in your area. Also, there is nothing wrong with being jewish. Some of my nicest friends are jewish. I think you should know that your spelling is as atrocious as his, if not worse. (not irelavant, irrelevant, not grammer, grammar, not mispelled, misspelled). Having rich parents is not a crime, and if they are rich, that makes it highly unlikely that he is a bastard child, which means a child born out of marriage. Finally, people who swear hell, for christ's sake, bastard) and insult people (spoiled, idiot) generally have a lower intelligence quota.

PS: Please learn to use capital letters. (Capitalize the first letter of a sentence, names such as Christ,

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on 2/20/2008 the following is a reply to genus123: your comment was completely irelavant to the topic at hand. matter of fact, you even mispelled "chewed" to "jewwed". i won't be surprised if you were "jew"-ish. hell, i won't be shocked if you were a spoiled bastard with rich parents. which explains why your grammer is so bad because you probably never needed to go to school. for chist's sake, you even called it a homemade cure! The only thing you'll make homemade is a bomb, you idiot. so, how do you reply to an irelavant comment? by posting another one.

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