TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 12, 2013

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Who manages to come down with a cold in the middle of summer? This girl right here. I have taken Vitamin C, drank lots of fluids, and had plenty of rest, but it still feels like my head may explode at any second. Anyone have any other tips to knock this thing out of me?

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Health is not valued till sickness comes."

HINT: (1608-1661), British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century


RANDOM TIDBITS
The name for the common cold began in the 1500s because the symptoms of this virus were so similar to what happened when people were out in cold weather for too long.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to realize that the virus was mostly transmitted person-to-person in his 1773 "Hints Concerning What is Called Catching Cold." Franklin's take on how to steer clear of the ever-pesky cold? Exercise, bathing, and moderation in food and drink consumption.

Perhaps the biggest push ever made to figure out the direct cause of the common cold-and defeat it-was made by a British doctor in 1946. Doctor David Tyrrell formed a "collection of huts" in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, recruiting volunteers to get infected with cold germs so that they could be studied.

In the United States alone, conservative estimates place the number of doctor's visits due to the common cold at between 75-100 million.

Common colds are definitely seasonal, happening much more often in the winter and much less in tropical areas.

Parents miss approximately 126 million work days to stay home and care for their children in recovery; add that to the 150 million workdays that employees miss from work for being sick themselves, and the common cold costs the US economy $20 billion per year.

(www.coldeeze.com)


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Health is not valued till sickness comes."

ANSWER: Thomas Fuller.

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