Talk:Common Cold Unit

why did it close?

As one of the last volunteers at the CCRU, I was told by the staff that it was closing because Thatcher's government wanted to save money. That seemed plausible at the time, but I have no other source for that statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.154.79 (talk) 00:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Link doesn't work
The link to the video clip returns a 404 error. There is a perfectly working example of the video on youtube. I changed the link on the Wiki but it was rejected by the "clever" bot.

so clever, it re-instated the dead link

(sigh..) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.133.94 (talk) 16:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Some links for future additions
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo/HealthandSafety/PortonDownVolunteers/TheMedicalResearchCouncilCommonColdResearchUnit.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1901012/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124964/

Video: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=60334

Need more details of when this was published: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/focuson/fightingthecoldwar/index.html

Has a section on CCU: http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/pdfs/mussheetcold.pdf Pvanheus (talk) 21:07, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Oral history points to empty page
The external reference https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/History-of-the-Common-Cold-Unit

goes to a live page, but it's only a placeholder, with 0 documents available in the collection :(

Pgramsey (talk) 19:49, 6 February 2018 (UTC)