• Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold Дженнифер Акерман
    ISBN: ISBN-978-0-446-54115-2
    Год издания: 2010
    Издательство: Twelve

    On average, we spend five years of our lives suffering from colds. Some are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery. Ah-Choo! explains just what a cold is, how it works, and whether it’s really possible to “fight one off.” Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold for good reason. Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. Also, over the past decade we’ve learned much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. This ode to…

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