Type 1 Diabetes: Complications

FICTION. Colds are transmitted by touching something that an infected person has touched, or by breathing in moisture that an infected person has coughed out. The reason people get more colds in winter is that they spend more time indoors and have more contact with each other.

Source: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.


Antibiotics can cure a cold or the flu.
FACT OR FICTION?

Reviewed by Francine Kaufman, MD. 01/09