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RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2

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RSV Vaccines - Barney Graham's Story

RSV causes severe respiratory disease in young children, and it's the leading cause of hospitalization in children under five. RSV was discovered in 1956, around the same time that the first polio vaccine was developed. Scientists started to work on a vaccine for RSV in the early 1960s but those early efforts were marred by some serious problems.

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