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Join author David Miles and Shoe Lane Library for a talk on the common cold.Everybody knows what a cold feels like: miserable. The first cold virus was detected in a milk tooth shed over 30,000 years ago and ever since, the common cold has been a bane.
Yet while sore throats and blocked noses are annoyingly familiar, the processes that lead to them are not widely known and often misunderstood. This talk will explore some of these lesser-known processes and what we can do about them.
David Miles is an infectious disease immunologist who spent ten years researching immunity to infections and the vaccinations that protect against them in various parts of Africa. He now lives in London and teaches on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s online postgraduate course. His first popular science book, How Vaccines Work, was published in March 2023 and his second, Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold, was published in March 2026.
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Hill House, 1 Little New Street, EC4A 3JR London, United Kingdom, 1 Little New Street, London, EC4A 3JR, United Kingdom
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