And sure you will probably succumb to a different cold virus, because there remain 300 various cold viruses. But you will never ever acquire the same runny nose virus that you had before due to the fact that you have established resistance to that particular cold virus.Adults have actually currently had a lot of the cold viruses. Adults have established immunity to the colds they have had. Therefore there are not as many runny nose viruses around for grownups to acquire. That is why adults only get infected with a few runny noses annually whereas youngsters succumb to 10-12 runny noses each year.