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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago

Is it possible you can catch a cold when wearing a fur coat..?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    A cold is an airborne virus, what you are wearing really doesn't make a lot of difference, although when you become chilled your body has less resistance against germs and viruses, but if someone sneezes right at you, fur coat or not, you will come in contact with the germs and if it contains a cold virus you will catch it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    until eventually you stay contained in the Artic circle on a study station, or in Siberia or yet another area with extreme chilly climate that synthetics do not artwork all acceptable or are not any more accessible, wearing fur in basic terms is undeniable incorrect, each and every time the fur is received purely by the lack of life of an animal. wearing clothing that exhibit animal fur encourages the killing of all organic world which may be utilized for fur. even if you position on rabbit fur, which isn't endangered, it makes human beings choose to have something they think about "more advantageous constructive" so one can one-up you. The more advantageous this stupidity occurs, the more advantageous the animal's coats are nicely worth. The more advantageous an animal's fur expenses, the more advantageous probably poaching and destruction of organic world will take position. imagine about it. Do you quite choose the fur peeled off the carcass of a few undesirable creature who change into probably killed in a merciless way,and may no longer also be useless yet at the same time as skinned, without regard for any offspring which could be depending on that animal (the hunters in a lot of circumstances in basic terms go away with the hides and then the cubs starve to lack of life.) purchase something else that shows you're above the favor to reveal off by wearing fur, which in basic terms seems disgusting besides, and enable the international see you're a more advantageous constructive individual than that. BTW, sheep and goats have fur that's harvested without harming or killing the animal.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes... you don't catch a cold from being cold, you catch it from viruses in the air. People only call it a cold because we notice getting ill more in the winter.

    Source(s): Common sense
  • Eve
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes, a cold is a virus. Being cold doesn't give you the cold, it just makes you more susceptible.

    Have you not heard of people having a 'summer cold' before?

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  • 1 decade ago

    You can "catch a cold" whatever you are wearing or even not wearing.

    Colds are caused by a virus.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A cold can be caused by the spread of germs.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, because it doesn't protect your face from the cold.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes just not as likely

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    yes, fur coats wont protect you from airborne particles.

  • 1 decade ago

    A coat isn't going to stop you from inhaling pathogens.

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