Research Tools Offer New Look at Common Cold

CHICAGO (Reuters) - It used to be called the common cold. Now scientists are starting to put some not-so-common names to the hundreds of viruses that make people cough, sneeze, wheeze and worse.This week they described how new research techniques are uncovering a host of new respiratory viruses -- including a new, monster-sized virus -- and spurring efforts to better understand the role of these viruses in disease.

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