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One in five of us suffer with cold sores, or 'coleslaws' as spluttering children call them. They are created by herpes simplex, a virus that sits quietly in nerves around the mouth, only gracing ...

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THERE is arguably nothing worse than feeling a cold coming on. Those all too familiar symptoms, sore throats, runny noses and pressure in your face, strike children twice as many times a year as ...