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Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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What I Like About RSV?

As early as 1958, 1959 or so, physicians noticed that the virus could cause illness with a huge range of severity from in apparent infection to fatal bronchiolitis. Over the next decades into the 1970s and the 1980s, RSV became a very familiar name during the winter months. For instance, studies from the 1980s reported that an estimated 100,000 children were hospitalized for RSV each year in the US,. costing $300 million annually.

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