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Autumn is a funny time of year. As the weather gets colder and the leaves start turning golden brown, people start to get ill. What we call the death cough starts to go round and believe me, it’s more virulent that swine flu. Just the government doesn’t track it.

The problem with autumn is that it’s that strange in between stage where you never quite know what to wear. Mild days with a balmy 15 degrees turn into fiercely cold evenings and nights.

More so than that, even crossing from one side of the street to the other can see you going from sunlight to shade and a massive temperature difference.

It’s at these in between temperatures that we don’t wear enough clothes and we start to get cold. When we get cold, everything in our body starts to slow down, including our immune system. And when it slows, we can’t fight off those coughs and colds that start going round, so effectively so we become sick.

The cough is a particularly virulent cold as it spreads so easily through the air. Sitting on the tube at rush hour you can hear different people coughing, or groups of people.

Everyone knows that the tube s a great place to get sick. Or not so great if you’re trying to avoid it. The air flows through the carriage bringing with it, coughs and colds.

There is however an answer, small as it may be. Boots offer a seasonal flu jab for £12.99 at some of it’s store that immunises you against flu and the aches and pains in the arse that it entails. If you want to find out more then click here.