Talk:Respiratory tract infection

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Please add info on this new additional explanation to section "#Epidemiology", and quite likely to at least one other article, once a reliable scientific review or health organization reported on it (WP:MEDRS). It's currently featured in the chronological 2022 in science like so:

Scientists provide a mechanistic biological explanation for why upper respiratory tract infections are more prevalent in the cold or winter season, previously largely explained only by behavioral and environmental variations. They found cold exposure impairs extracellular vesicle (EV) swarm–mediated antiviral immunity in the nose – fewer EVs are secreted and they become less effective.^[1][2]