Hospitals risk being put under strain in the Balearic Islands as five serious viruses descend on the archipelago.

When you go from hot to cold temperatures (or vice versa) mucus membranes dry out, making you more likely to get sick.

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You have a fever, a cough and feel short of breath. Do you have Covid-19, the flu or just the common cold? “This is a difficult distinction to make,” said Dr Iahn Gonsenhauser, Ohio State ...

manifests symptoms akin to the common cold and can cause serious respiratory conditions. Cases related to pathogens such as the rhinovirus and human metapneumovirus are increasing in China.

A common cold is caused by any one of more than 200 different viruses that creates an infection in the nose and throat, creating inflammation along the lining membranes, according to Johns Hopkins.

Rhinoviruses cause most colds. Though symptoms of a cold and the flu are similar, key differences set them apart. The two illnesses develop at different rates, with colds often beginning slowly ...

DR. BOB: My three children (two in grade school and one in kindergarten) seem to have colds all the time in the winter. The sneezing and coughing don’t seem to go away. Not only do the kids get ...