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Please explain why does the common cold spread so easily?
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Viral infections: often times spread so easily because there does not need to be direct physical contact for exposure to occur. Washing your hands, coughing into your sleeve and or covering your mouth are good tactics for decrease in infection rates.
Answered 6/17/2014
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