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A member asked:
I wasat supermarket yesterday for couple of hours&it was really cold&i wore shortsleeved shirt.i feel reallycold and littlesorethroat.did i get a cold?
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No: Exposure to cold environment doesn't give you a cold. You may have been infected with a cold virus but exposure to cold just triggered it to manifest the way it did. Of you may just have something else going on that coincided in timing with the exposure to the cold environment.
Answered 8/30/2013
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