Word: rhinovirus
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...cure the common cold [HEALTH, March 10]? It's simple. Look in any drugstore, and you will see myriad products aimed at alleviating the many kinds of cold symptoms. Find a way to kill the rhinovirus, and you kill the profits of the pharmaceutical companies. We will undoubtedly be sneezing for hundreds of years yet. And the drug barons will see to it that no cure will ever appear on the horizon. Kerchoo! JOHN CHARLTON Ottawa...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. When researchers published their first highly detailed analysis of the structure of a human rhinovirus back in 1985, it was easy to imagine that a cure for the common cold might soon be available. After all, once scientists discovered which molecular footholds rhinoviruses use to latch onto and infect human cells, it should not have been that hard to develop a drug that would block the linkage and cure a cold before it got started. Or so the thinking went. Unfortunately, the logistics, from both a biological and a business point of view...
...system sends in a second wave of cells. These represent what is known as the innate immune system. Unlike the first wave of defenders, which are crude killing machines, these cells are preprogrammed with biochemical weapons that can target specific types of invaders, including common viruses like influenza and rhinovirus (which causes the common cold...
...somehow, we desperately do want to have anthrax. It would separate us from the unwashed, rhinovirus-afflicted masses, allowing us to join instead the exalted ranks of “The Targets”: the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), various media outlets, Washington, New York. Flu-like symptoms and a 60-day regimen of Cipro have come to separate the sheep from the goats, the cognoscenti from the provincials. We want anthrax because it would mean that someone, somewhere, thinks we are important enough to kill. The American preoccupation with fame isn?...
...fair bet that Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel sniffled, sneezed and complained of stuffy noses. In fact, rhinovirus, above, with its more than 100 identified strains, has probably been around even longer than humans. With age comes wisdom, which in the case of this virus means the ability to resist every concoction--from chicken soup to zinc lozenges--people throw at it. So far, modern medicine has met its match. Still the best treatment: aspirin, rest and lots of fluids...