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Global warming's good side effect: Shorter cold season
Respiratory Care Weekly, March 8, 2006
Prematurely born infants and people with compromised immune systems have a reason to be thankful for global warming, says Gavin Donaldson, PhD, from the University College in London. In a study he published in the March 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, he said that the weather phenomenon shortens the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season. The virus manifests itself as the common cold in most children and adults but can cause severe respiratory problems for infants and the aged.
In analyzing central England hospital admissions for RSV from 1981 to 2004, Donaldson concluded that every degree Celsius added to the annual mean temperature of a region, shortens the RSV season by three weeks.
"People know that there is a relationship, but don't know what's causing it," Donaldson wrote. "It is known that as the temperature gets colder, a lot of respiratory infections increase...There must be some link with the temperature or the season to explain precisely why this is happening."
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