Study: Cold Weather May Be Linked To Common Cold After All
Dr. Roberto Posada discusses the viruses that cause colds.
Remember what your mother always told you? Put a coat on or you'll catch a cold in this weather. But doctors have always told us cold temperatures don't cause colds — viruses cause colds. Now, as CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, mom may have been right all along, sort of. "The common cold is still caused by a variety of different viruses, most common the Rhinovirus," said Roberto Posada, MD, with The Mount Sinai Hospital. "The immune system is less able to protect itself from the virus at cold temperatures," said Dr. Posada. Learn more.
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