the cold virus lives in the hypothalamus in the body.
where does the cold virus live in the body?
hypothalamus
any living organism can contract a virus by giving parasites the opportunity to grow. parasites feed on the nutrients of another organism which allows the virus to thrive. once the human body detects a virus, it then creates fighter cells that attack the parasite/virus; literally, causing a war within the body. a virus can affect any part of the body causing a wide range of illnesses such as the flu, the common cold, and sexually transmitted diseases. the flu is an airborne virus that travels through tiny droplets and is formally known as influenza. parasites travel through the air and attack the human respiratory system. people that are initially infected with this virus pass infection on by normal day to day activity such as talking and sneezing. when a person comes in contact with the virus, unlike the common cold, the flu virus affects people almost immediately. symptoms of this virus are very similar to the common cold but much worse. body aches, sore throat, headache, cold sweats, muscle aches and fatigue are among the many symptoms accompanied by the virus. a viral infection in the upper respiratory tract results in the common cold. with symptoms like sore throat, sneezing, small fever, and a cough, the common cold is usually harmless and tends to clear up within a week or so. the common cold is also a virus that is spread through the air but can also be passed through direct contact. this infection takes a few days to develop symptoms; it is a gradual process unlike the flu.
microbial genetics
fry catches the common cold during an ice fishing trip, though the rest of the planet express crew are unaware of what the disease is as it was eradicated 500 years ago. professor farnsworth explains that the common cold virus had survived within fry while he was frozen for 1000 years and has thus been reintroduced to mankind, which has lost all resistance to the virus. during this time, flashbacks to the year 1988 show fry taking an ice fishing trip with his father, during which he falls through the ice and catches a cold. later, egged on by his brother yancy, he decides to enter a science competition judged by buzz aldrin in which the winner's entry will be launched into space in a satellite. his idea is to infect his pet guinea pig with the cold virus and see if can be cured by exposure to cosmic rays. a rival competitor, josh gedgie, learns of fry's entry and decides to create an experiment about the common cold as well.
cold warriors