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Be Medicinewise Week 2012	NPS - Be Medicinewise Week 2012 is this week 26 - 31 March 2012 Visit http://www.nps.org.au/bemedicinewise for further information. There is a Be medicine wise challenge for consumers where they could win an iPad2 and information on the use of antibiotics when you have a cold or flu.
Common Cold	Common cold Anyone can get a cold at any time and they are very common: children can get about 5-10 colds per year adults can get 2-4 colds per year children get more colds than adults because they are not immune to as many cold viruses as adults are. Colds are caused by a virus. There are about 200 different viruses that can cause a cold and each one is slightly different. That is why you can get one cold after another. Once your immune system has fought off an infection with one particular cold virus, you will be immune to that virus. The cold is also called acute viral rhinosinusitis. The common cold is not the same as flu (influenza). Flu is caused by a completely different virus (influenza virus A or B), and has much more severe symptoms. However the cold virus can still make you feel unwell and is usually more than just a runny nose. For more information about the common colds and the problem of resistance, please visit NPS at http://www.nps.org.au/conditions/common_cold

 Updated 18 May 2012