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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The common cold is really a colloquial term for an entire family of multiple rapidly evolving rhinoviruses.

They are different enough that an immune response to one might not affect another and evolve often enough that it might not work on the same one twice.

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