Title: In Cold Pursuit: Medical Intelligence Investigates the Common Cold Gilmore, Barnard J.
Publisher: Stoddart Pub
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0773731199
ISBN 13: 9780773731196
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Book by Gilmore, J. Barnard

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There are hundreds of common cold viruses, in several distinct families, each with its own unique genetic instructions for co-opting the cells it infects. How these viruses jump from person to person and bring on the sniffles is a subject of contentious scientific debate, with surprisingly few hard answers. Tracking cold transmission among Eskimos, London postal workers, German WWI troops and Cleveland families, and on Polaris submarines, in the Virgin Islands, in Amsterdam and elsewhere, this circuitous review of seven decades of research is likely to leave readers baffled. Gilmore, a psychology professor emeritus who conducted a five-year epidemiological study of colds among University of Toronto student volunteers, holds the somewhat heretical view that colds stemming from a commensal (companionable) virus may be quite common. Contrary to the popular view that the cold virus is invasive and spread by contagion, he believes it may live in harmony with its host for a time before turning nasty under certain conditions. Gilmore also lays out the evidence that most cold viruses are transmitted by direct contact with contaminated objects, rather than by airborne transmission via coughs and sneezes. His advice for avoiding colds (wash your hands frequently, buffer yourself against marked shifts in outdoor temperature, etc.) is as inconclusive as his review of the research. His thorough scientific detective story reveals much about the workings of science and the mysteries of illness, but offers cold comfort for the afflicted reader.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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