RSV, or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, is a respiratory virus common among young children. Haro said after Stella got sick last week, his other daughter, Natalia, caught the infection too. "She kept coughing, and my wife decided that it was better to take [Stella] to Cook's Chi...
Retrospective review of the RSV cases from January 1, 2022 to October 27, 2023, at the South Texas Veterans healthcare system. We collected data(age and outcome of patients) from Theradoc (infection control surveillance tool used for surveillance) on positive RSV patients seeking care at South...
RSV, or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, is a respiratory virus common among young children. Haro said after Stella got sick last week, his other daughter, Natalia, caught the infection too. "She kept coughing, and my wife decided that it was better to take [Stella] to Cook's Children. We j...
The seasons are usually a strong predictor of RSV infection, with activity typically occurring in late fall, winter and early spring, peaking from late December to mid-February. According to the researchers, however, the COVID-19 pandemic had an effect on RSV seasona...
Although RSV infection can occur at any stage of life, over the past 10 years, RSV has come to be known as a significant respiratory pathogen in adults, the elderly, immunocompromised individuals, and people with chronic respiratory disorders. Along with the influenza virus and the rhinovirus, ...
inflammation of the small airway passages entering the lungs in infants and young children. RSV is also the most common cause of pneumonia in those under 1. "Infants, young children, and older adults with chronic medical conditions are at risk of severe disease from RSV infection," says the ...
about what happens from getting all three vaccines at the same time, so getting the RSV vaccine separately may be a good idea if you are really not sure," said Dr. Janak Patel, director of the department of infection control and healthcare epidemiology at the University of Texas Medica...
Occupational Health at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health and vice chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Toxicology, has shown thatair pollution exposure, particularly during pregnancy, alters the fetal lung development in a way that predisposes the infant to more severe infection....
Unvaccinated individuals have a higher risk of severe infection, hospitalization, and death, and thanks in part to lingering COVID fatigue, uptake of the new 2024–25 vaccine has been less than ideal. Only one in five adults (21.5%) had gotten the updated jab as of the week ended Dec. ...
Risk of severity given infection was parametrized in these models based on children cohort studies in the US and Kenya: see Nokes et al, Glezen et al, and Breese Hall at al.Since these studies have been published, there has been an increased recognition of the burden of RSV among seniors...