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[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Even for someone in shape, being outside in the elements can impact the immune system. Especially when said system is an enclosed environment with a high and varied population for long intervals of exposure to a variety of airborne diseases that is especially prevalent this time of year. What does this all translate to?

"Aaa-achoo!" Namely Kate's in the bar with a cold, with a box of tissues, hot tea, and medicine by her.

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[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"Common cold's a disease too. And it means you're vulnerable to other diseases. Germs are microorganisms that cause disease. They're very tiny, and get inside a person to infect them. Plus, while you're sick, you can spread that cold to other people."

[ostro_goth]

"But I got it because I was cold the day before yesterday, at the snow battle," Teja argues. "That's not a disease."

he says nothing about germs for the moment; that sounds too outlandish.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Kate sighed, "I don't want to argue about this right now when we're both sick. Just ask Bar for a medical textbook sometime, or talk to Guppy or one of the doctors around here to explain it more in detail." She then blew her nose on another tissue, and threw it away in her little trashcan by her.

[ostro_goth]

"I'm not sick," Teja says, sneezes, takes another tissue and then deposits it like he has seen her do it.

"But thank you!"

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"I'm not going to argue it, but we both are. And you're welcome."

[ostro_goth]

"I'm not going to argue," Teja says, "but I shall ask the bar for my own box of these. That rag gets acrid."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"See? Much cleaner, like I said."

[ostro_goth]

"Thank you," Teja says. "This is a useful new invention, wasteful and unimportant though it seems."