Article: 'Don't raise your hopes' warning over common cold cure; HEALTH: Drug 'exciting opportunity'.(News)

Byline: MANJIRI KULKARNI

A COMMON cold expert has warned people not to raise their hopes after news that American experts had developed a drug which shortens the virus's duration.

Professor Ron Eccles, from Cardiff University's Common Cold Centre, described the advancement as a very exciting opportunity, but added "we are still going to have to wait and see how exciting".

There are about 120 million colds a year in the UK.

Dr Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia told a US medical conference that the drug, pleconaril, makes a ...

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