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Old Jan 01, 2013, 01:34 AM
hamster-bamster hamster-bamster is offline
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PD, you are spot on with the pregnancy risk analogy. But look, in German, English, and Russian the common language word for a respiratory infection is COLD. I think it conveys the belief that cold or erkaeltung in German comes from all things cold.