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| It's more than just sniffles... | ||||||||
| "Every time a person in the United States has a cold, it costs roughly $80 in direct and indirect expense, researchers estimate in the Feb. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine (news - web sites). And, they add, the overall cost of the common cold is $40 billion annually....more expensive to treat than many other more serious illnesses, including asthma and heart disease." | ||||||||
| "The common cold leads to more than 100 million physician visits annually." Dr. A. Mark Fendrick, co-director of the Consortium for Health Outcomes at the University of Michigan Health System | ||||||||
| http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/cold.htm | ||||||||