Why isn’t our immune systems completely immune to things like the common cold?

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I mean common cold has been around for a long time. How has the immune system not learned how to fight it?

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It is immune to the common cold. Or at least, last year’s version of it. Viruses like that and influenza mutate so rapidly that the disease you caught 6 months ago is now sufficiently different that your immune response doesn’t work anymore and you have to start from scratch again.

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