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The average person will spend about 5 years suffering from the common cold, and 1 year of that time will be spent with a cold that is severe enough to require bed rest.¹ Human rhinovirus (HRV) is responsible for 50 to 80% of common colds and thus causes misery, morbidity, reduced productivity, inappropriate use of antibiotics, and economic costs estimated at more than $60 billion each year in the United States alone.² Among very young children, older adults, and persons with immunodeficiency, HRV can also cause serious disease of the lower respiratory tract.

HRVs, which were discovered in the 1950s, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Medicine (G.A.P., M.A.B.), Immunology (M.A.B.), and Molecular Medicine (M.A.B.) and the Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense (G.A.P., M.A.B.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

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