Scientists behind a new study may have found the biological reason we get more respiratory illnesses in winter. It turns out, the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose.
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“This is one of, if not the only part of the immune system that leaves your body to go fight the bacteria and viruses before they actually get into your body,” Bleier said. Once created and dispersed out into nasal secretions, the billions of EV’s then start to swarm the marauding germs, Bleier said.
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