MEDICINE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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A cold is a viral infection with many different strains.
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A cold is a bacterial infection that remains active in the body.
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A cold is a bacterial infection present only during the winter months.
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A cold is a viral infection that remains active until treated with antibiotics.
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Detailed explanation-1: -You’re not going to catch a cold from the same virus serotype again right after getting better. However, you can still get another cold from a different virus serotype or a different virus. When you get sick, you develop antibodies for the virus serotype you’ve caught, Dr. Greninger explains.
Detailed explanation-2: -Viruses that cause colds can spread from infected people to others through the air and close personal contact. You can also get infected through contact with stool (poop) or respiratory secretions from an infected person.
Detailed explanation-3: -A cold virus enters your body through your mouth, eyes or nose. The virus can spread through droplets in the air when someone who is sick coughs, sneezes or talks. It also spreads by hand-to-hand contact with someone who has a cold or by sharing contaminated objects, such as eating utensils, towels, toys or telephones.
Detailed explanation-4: -And some patients might get back-to-back colds, doctors say. It isn’t likely people will be reinfected with the same virus because the body builds some immunity to it. But people can pick up another of the more than 200 known viruses that can cause the common cold, some of which are worse than others.