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Cold & Flu Facts
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In a study on cold and flu-like illness among University students,
27.8% reported doing poorly on a test and 46.3% did poorly on a class
assignment because of their cold or flu-like illness. Students with
colds missed 1.5 - 1.9 hours of extracurricular activities and 3.5 - 4
hours of social activities per illness while students with
influenza-like illness missed 3.4 - 5 hours of extracurricular
activities and 7.7 - 10 hours of social activities.
Door handles, pens, light switches, TV remote controls, faucets, and
telephones were all found to be frequently contaminated with rhinovirus
(a virus causing the common cold) in a study of environmental
contamination with rhinovirus in hotel rooms.