The origins of the Common Cold Unit.
In 1941 Harvard University and the American Red Cross provided an epidemiological team and an infectious diseases hospital for Britain. Since 1946 the buildings have been occupied by the Common Cold Unit where research has been carried out into many aspects of the causative viruses and their role in the disease, and also into methods of preventing it. The establishment is to be closed down this year.
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