Uzma Zaidi's Blog – January 2011 Archive (1)

Lets begin by busting the myth that you catch a cold if you go out in the cold with wet hair.  Cold is a virus and you can only get it from somebody else or from germs in the environment around you. 

How does a virus work? In order to take hold, a virus must get inside the cells and re-programme them to replicate more viruses, which then infect other surrounding cells.

So what happens when your body is under attack?  Firstly your body will only succumb…