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This is from the Sunday Tasmanian - 27 05 12The first way to prevent a cold - get vaccinated. Of course there is no vaccine against any of the viruses known to cause the common cold - but take a flu shot - since everyone knows that the flu and the common cold are exactly the same thing. ANY excuse to push vaccines. ANY reason to treat people as though they were mushrooms. The sad thing is that many people will read this article and think - yeah, better get my flu shot so I don't catch a cold. <sigh>If you feel like writing to this newspaper, the email address is - suntas.letters@...

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