Why is it so hard to cure the common cold? | George Zaidan

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On average, adults catch more than 150 colds throughout their lives. Even with similar symptoms, the cause could be different each time. Common colds are caused by at least 8 different families of virus, each of which can have its own subtypes. How can so many different viruses cause the same illness? And is a cure even possible? Explore the two main strategies we employ to fight viruses. This TED-Ed lesson was directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by George Zaidan and the music is by Nikola Radivojevic.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.4	This is Ted Hell, I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:12.6	In medicine, we've found cures for so many diseases, which is astonishing and wonderful,
0:19.3	but there still isn't a cure for the pesky common cold.
0:23.1	Why is that?
0:24.6	On today's show, Science Educator George Zyden explains why rhinoviruses, which cause
0:29.9	up to 50% of all colds remain impervious to vaccines and antiviral drugs.
0:36.6	Are we doomed to sniffle forever?
0:40.5	Hi, I'm Francis Frye, and I'm Ann Morris, and we are the hosts of a new Ted podcast
0:54.1	called Fixable.
0:55.1	We've helped leaders at some of the world's most competitive companies solve all kinds
0:59.9	of problems.
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1:05.0	advice we usually reserve for top executives.
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1:24.0	In 2000, a company called Viropharma ran clinical trials of pleconereal, a new pill designed
1:29.2	to treat the common cold.
1:31.1	In many patients, the pill helped, but in seven of them, just a few days into the treatment,
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