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Globe and Mail - Get well soon, guys: 'Man flu' is real, study finds
Published: 27 June 2011
Just because a guy cowers in bed with aches and chills, while his girlfriend barely catches the sniffles, doesn鈥檛 make him a wuss. Women are simply less likely to succumb to bugs, the Telegraph reports.聽Compared with men, an Australian study found, women have a 鈥渕uch stronger immune response鈥 to rhinoviruses 鈥 the germs responsible for the common cold.
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