Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Children born by cesarean delivery are at increased risk for developing asthma http://is.gd/iuEM
  
  
• Children delivered by c-section were 79 percent more likely to develop asthma than children born vaginally http://is.gd/iuEM
  
  
• RSV far more widespread among children than once thought and puts more of them in the hospital than influenza http://is.gd/iuFn
  
  
• RSV responsible for 20% of hospitalizations, 18% of ER visits, 15% office visits for resp. infections in children under 5 http://is.gd/iuFn
  
  
• Researchers should place more emphasis on finding a vaccine for RSV http://is.gd/iuFn
  
  
• Only 3 percent of the RSV cases were correctly diagnosed http://is.gd/iuFn

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