How long is your immunity, after infection, to a particular cold virus?

Subject: How long is your immunity, after infection, to a particular cold virus?

Date: Sun Oct 9 18:09:47 2005
Posted by marc
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: lehigh university
City: bethlehem State/Province: pa Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Immunology
ID: 1128906587.Im

Message:


There are hundreds of cold viruses, but once you become infected and recover, 
how long is your immunity to the specific cold virus that caused the infection. 
If it were a long time, why not inject someone already with a cold with all two 
or three hundred different cold viruses so they can do all their sufferring at 
once and not be bothered with annual colds?

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