" The reason that the Flu virus is so prevalent in the winter season is that the virus is airbourne on the tiny droplets that are spread through sneezing and coughing. Durring the hotter months of summer the air is heavier with humitity & this pushes the droplets down where they are less likly to spread. Durring the cold months, less humitity viruses stay airbourne longer & coupled with the sneezing coughing that goes on...well you get the picture."

I just wanted to add, in the cold weather people tend to congregate more indoors and this allows germs to propagate more easily in confined quarters. Wherever people gather in numbers, i.e. schools, germs spread more easily. Jared Diamond wrote about this and explained it in detail in his book 'Guns, Germs and Steel' when

Good to see Alda on target. The Olympic exposure will help put Alda on the international scene and make us a good target for a buy-out.