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Common cold virus originated in birds

Published November 21, 2008, 1:47 pm, News-Medical-Net

A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology.

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