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1 March 2006

Volume 42, Number 5
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006;42:677–679
1058-4838/2006/4205-0014$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/500208
BRIEF REPORT

Climate Change and the End of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Season

Gavin Christopher Donaldson

Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom

The seasons associated with laboratory isolation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (for 1981–2004) and RSV‐related emergency department admissions (for 1990–2004) ended 3.1 and 2.5 weeks earlier, respectively, per 1°C increase in annual central England temperature ( and .043, respectively). Climate change may be shortening the RSV season.

Received 2 September 2005; accepted 11 November 2005; electronically published 25 January 2006.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Gavin Donaldson, Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Hampstead Campus, Rowland Hill St., London, NW3 2PF, United Kingdom ().

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