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Article: BATTLING THE COMMON COLD MANUFACTURERS ATTEMPT TO SOLVE MYSTERY OF EASING SYMPTOMS
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1987
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DRAWING - (POST-TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATION BY JOE SORIA)
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HEALTH-MEDICINE
Bundled into bed and slurping soup between sniffles, you can squeeze only a single thought into your pounding head: There must be a better way to combat the common cold.
The same thought enters the clear heads of entrepreneurs who see healthy profits in other people's ills. Recent cold seasons have seen ideas for virus- killing Kleenex, good-tasting zinc lozenges and a host of over-the-counter cold medicines. Germ-killing soaps and electric devices that heat cold viruses to destruction are being advertised, and interferon nasal spray is on the horizon.
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