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What is Causing the Explosion of RSV?

Submitted by Dirtperson Steve

Guest Post by A Midwestern Doctor

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Many of you have observed an explosion of RSV (respiratory syncytial virus, a respiratory virus that frequently afflicts children) and to a lesser extent influenza (e.g. a friend called me up today to ask if it was linked to the vaccine and many colleagues have reached out to me about the unprecedented surge they are observing in patients). Although I expected this, it is still somewhat disconcerting to see this happen as RSV is typically not a major concern outside of very specific patient populations.

I first started seeing signs of this concerning trend last year when Australia reported a huge spike in RSV over the summer. This summer, Australia experienced an unprecedented spike in both influenza and RSV. This has led many experts to become worried about the threat we were facing from these diseases and emphasize the urgent need to develop a vaccine for RSV (the last one was pulled because it caused enhanced respiratory disease).

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Big Pharma Eyes Next Childhood Vaccine Cash Cow — mRNA Vaccines for RSV

Via Children’s Health Defense

'When it comes to vaccines and immunization … there always has been a risk and there always will be a risk.'

Over the decades since childhood vaccines began rolling out on a widespread scale, pediatric vaccine injuries have left many parents regretful for forgetting or ignoring a basic history lesson.

That lesson, in the words of Harvard medical historian David Jones, is that “when it comes to vaccines and immunization … there always has been a risk and there always will be a risk.”

Sixty-five years ago, families learned about the risks of medical experimentation the hard way when they allowed researchers to use their infants as test subjects for a vaccine against a newly discovered illness dubbed “respiratory syncytial virus” (RSV), a common-cold-like illness now considered to affect “virtually all children,” mostly uneventfully, by age two.

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