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There is no cure for either. Once you catch them, all that can be done is treatment of the symptoms to make you feel better. The only cure is done by your body's immune system. A healthy immune system creates antibodies for the causative organisms that can disable them. So, you might say the only real cure would be Time. Time for your healthy immune system to do its job.

The flu does have an annual vaccine (that changes every year) that will give immunity to the strains of flu that flu experts think are the most likely to strike that year. But you can still catch a type flu that isn't one of those. So even if you have the flu vaccination, you should continue to use good hand hygiene.

There is no vaccine for the common cold. Those viruses mutate too rapidly for vaccine production to be useful.

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