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Sometimes it is, it depends on the virus causing it.

• vikramkr 7y ago
  Do you have any examples of retroviruses that cause the common cold? I did a quick search but couldn't find anything, but that sounds like something that would be really interesting to read up on - the classical retrovirus isn't necessarily something that can go away after a couple days of sniffles and I'm curious to know if there are long term consequences to colds caused by retroviruses.
  • kalium_xyz 7y ago
    The search results are probably flooded, if you need good info look for anything from before the resent outbreak. Its on the wikipedia page for common cold, I think I got the factoid when I was searching google patents for coronavirus (might be interesting to check out as well) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses
    • vikramkr 7y ago
      I don't think coronavirus is an integrating retrovirus? It's an RNA virus for sure, but I haven't ever heard of it causing genome integration, and it would probably be a lot more dangerous (ability to cause cancer for instance) if it did?