If you already have a cold, you're less likely to get the flu, and vice versa, a large new study shows.
That finding could lead to improved prediction of cold and flu outbreaks as well as new ways to control the diseases' spread, British researchers said.
The investigators tested for 11 types of respiratory viruses in more than 44,000 samples taken from more than 36,000 people with an acute respiratory illness. Of those people, 35% tested positive for a virus. Of those, 8% were infected with more than one type of virus. Patients with influenza A were about 70% less likely to also be infected with rhinovirus than patients infected with other virus types, according to the study published Dec. 16 in the journal"One really striking pattern in our data is the decline in cases of the respiratory virus rhinovirus, which is typically a mild common cold-causing virus, occurring during winter, around the time that flu activity increases," said study first author Sema Nickbakhsh.
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