The other night i was out in the rain and cold for a few hours and got home and started to feel ill – i woke up the next morning with all the regular cold-type symptoms and have felt under the weather for a few days now. It made me think – is this the same as ‘catching a cold’ from someone else and would i be able to pass this ‘illness’ on, or is it something different with similar symptoms?
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It’s not possible to catch an illness from weather. A cold is a viral infection. It’s the same reason you can’t catch Covid from going out into the rain alone. Has to come from another person one way or another.
What many people don’t understand about illness is the incubation period. It’s possible to be exposed to a virus and get sick 2 weeks later. Even food poisoning, although faster, typically takes at least 72 hours to take effect. It’s almost impossible to get it from something you ate earlier that same day.
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