The Common Cold 30,000 years of the sniffles. 

Everybody knows what a cold feels like: miserable. The first cold virus was detected in a milk tooth shed over 30,000 years ago and ever since, the common cold has been a bane.

Sore throats and blocked noses are annoyingly familiar, the processes that lead to them are not widely known and often misunderstood. Processes like the misdirected immune response that makes us ill with a cold instead of protecting us from illness. Like the way heating a building enhances cold virus transmission. Like the way that most cold viruses can only exist at all thanks to the society we’ve built over the last few millennia.

And, most importantly, what we can do about them.

Presented by David Miles, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

When: 7:30 pm on Wednesday the 18th of March (Doors open at 7:00pm)

Where: The Old School House 254 – 256 Lymington Rd Highcliffe BH23 5ET

Entrance: Free

Light refreshments will be available but as the Old School is not a Cafe, please feel free to bring food/picnics etc. We also request that you bring your own reusable cups to keep waste to a minimum.

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