What exactly is the difference between a cold and the flu? Is it what causes it, like bacteria and virus, or what?

jab3	Colds are caused by one or more of over 200 different viruses that can cause infection once they are in the body. Flu is caused by multiple strains of two different types of viruses called type A and type B. Dec 01 03, 4:24 PM

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The mechanism is the same but clearly the invasion by cold (also called coryza) viruses is less dramatic as the body's defences are better at coping with this than with the various mutated strains of influenza. Dec 01 03, 8:20 PM

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