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Program: The perils of the common cold

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You know that feeling...you can't breathe through your nose...yet somehow it's running.

Your throat is sore and your brain becomes a cloud of fog.

You've got no energy...and then the cough sets in.

You might just shrug off the dreaded common cold as, oh well, it's just a cold.

But is it? And when is it the far more serious and sometimes deadly cousin the flu?

Hunter Medical Research Institute virologist Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett speaks with Kia Handley

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