How does the virus spread in common cold?

According to Keith Crandall, a professor of biology, there are a lot of different ways to treat cold yet none of them have proven to be quite effective. One of the reasons behind this is that we have not studied the virus extensively and how they work with the immune system and drugs.

A researchers’ team from Brigham Young University studied the genomic sequences, from online resources, and estimated a relationship between the rhinovirus and other viruses using computer algorithms.

The polio virus vaccine was discovered in 1955, and is had since been known that the rhinovirus has similar characteristics to the polio virus. The interesting fact: polio virus has only three subspecies, while rhinovirus has more than 100 subspecies which are evolving continuously.

Lewis Roger added that these viruses can undergo diverse changes while staying under the same constraints. This is the reason why creating a vaccine was so tough.

The team lead by Lewis Roger at BYU used a computer program to identify the parts of the virus genome which can give resistance to the human immune system and drugs.