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With the winter flu and vomiting bug seasons well underway, Covid infections still circling - and now news of measles outbreaks - it might seem inevitable that youre going to get ill with one of them.

With more and more people saying their colds seem worse this year, Lisa Salmon asks some experts what’s going on.

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We expect to get colds over the winter, but this season it seems many people are really struggling to get rid of their sniffles.

Is there a particularly long-lasting virus circulating at the moment, are we catching back-to-back bugs, or is this simply a result of reduced immunity after the pandemic?

Jeremy Brown, a professor of respiratory infection at University College London, says it is possible that viral infections are worse or more prolonged after the pandemic.

Experts have given some explanation as why people may be suffering from prolonged illness and symptoms this winter.

With more and more people saying their colds seem worse this year, Lisa Salmon asks some experts what’s going on.

Health officials fear the outbreaks will continue to pick up pace in the coming weeks because of the busy festive social calendar. So what are the tell-tale signs of Covid? And how can you tell it apart from flu?

Both cold and dryness reduce your immune function, mainly by slowing down multiple immune defenses and giving pathogens more time to take over.