Common cold and sinus infections share similar symptoms. Knowing the difference is important. Colds usually resolve within 10 ...

Here’s what causes colds to spread so easily, how long they are usually contagious and how they’re most commonly treated.

While cold weather may not exacerbate rhinoviruses, cold, dry air, as is common in winter, can assist the transmission of influenza viruses. During colder months, people may also spend more time ...

Other viruses, like metapneumovirus, the common human coronaviruses (distinct from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19), and parainfluenza virus, can all cause the common cold, too ...

Uptick in children developing rhinovirus infections 02:41. CHICAGO (CBS) -- For healthy adults, rhinoviruses and enteroviruses infections are among the causes of the common cold – but for ...

Rhinovirus is the most common cause of the common cold, according to the CDC. Rhinoviruses can also trigger asthma attacks and have been linked to sinus and ear infections, per the CDC.

Common cold symptoms can be caused by many viruses, but the odds you’re fighting a rhinovirus are high: the virus accounts for as much as half of all common colds.

While rhinoviruses account for as much as 30–50 percent of common cold cases, and non-Covid coronaviruses another 10–15 percent, other causes include adenoviruses, respiratory syncytial ...

During this back-to-school season, doctors report an increase in severe cases of the common cold among some children — with more kids requiring hospital admission. COVID lockdowns may be to blame.

Rhinoviruses are considered the primary cause of the common cold, estimated to be responsible for 50% to 70% of cases. The two primary modes of transmission for rhinoviruses, according to Choi ...

A vaccine against the common cold may be possible, new research in mice and monkeys suggests. Mice and monkeys both built up immunity to many strains of a virus that causes the common cold, called ...

It will be difficult to develop the vaccine because rhinovirus infects quickly and mutates, or changes, quickly. In clinical trials that tested a cold vaccine with just one strain, results showed ...