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The common cold viruses are able to mutate very rapidly to avoid the defenses that you may have acquired from prior exposure and an immune response. The defenses that work on one mutation don't work on the next mutation. You won't catch the same exact virus strain a second time, but you can easily catch a different one since the common cold spreads quickly from person to person.

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