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Scientists discover a weak spot shared by polio and common cold viruses

By InsideWellness Editorial · May 13, 2026

Originally published by ScienceDaily Health & Medicine.

Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common cold—to reproduce inside human cells. The team captured, in unprecedented detail, how viral RNA recruits both viral and hu

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