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1) How long can this virus last between hosts?
2) When you "get better", what is actually happening? has your body overcome the virus's replicating abilities? evicted it? "killed" it?
3) Can the same virus re-infect one right away? like, say you've just had a cold, gotten better, and then you touch an infected tissue-box or door-handle or something and re-introduce the very same virus to your body - will your body recognise it at all? And sort of related to 1), what if you re-introduce the same virus after some time has passed? which leads us to;
4) why does the body not seem to build immunity to the cold virus? Is it because of small variations in the virus's make-up? (as in, it evolves little changes just enough to stay ahead?)
Thanks in advance
FP - currently enduring his first case of sniffles in some years
2) When you "get better", what is actually happening? has your body overcome the virus's replicating abilities? evicted it? "killed" it?
3) Can the same virus re-infect one right away? like, say you've just had a cold, gotten better, and then you touch an infected tissue-box or door-handle or something and re-introduce the very same virus to your body - will your body recognise it at all? And sort of related to 1), what if you re-introduce the same virus after some time has passed? which leads us to;
4) why does the body not seem to build immunity to the cold virus? Is it because of small variations in the virus's make-up? (as in, it evolves little changes just enough to stay ahead?)
Thanks in advance
FP - currently enduring his first case of sniffles in some years