“We’ve stepped back into the world that we lived in before the [CDC’s vaccine advisory committee] was created,” said Dr.

For newborns and infants, whose immune systems are still developing, and airways are small, RSV can quickly become serious. Their tiny airways can get easily blocked by swelling and mucus, leading to ...

CDC wastewater also shows the XFG variant — nicknamed stratus — is most common in the U.S. Stratus can cause a “razor blade” ...

A new study shows that while RSV mostly affects younger kids, the often-overlooked human metapneumovirus also hospitalizes ...

RSV usually only has mild symptoms, but it can lead to breathing problems in the most vulnerable infants. The vaccine is ...

Palivizumab was the only approved therapy to prevent severe RSV disease in infants and young children until the approval of nirsevimab in 2023.

In babies, RSV is a common cause of a type of chest infection called bronchiolitis. Last week, the UK Health Security Agency ...

With COVID-19 hospitalizations rising and flu and RSV on the horizon, experts say it’s time to boost up your immunity ahead of the fall and winter season. Here are answers to some frequently ...

To protect yourself from RSV, practice good hygiene, consider getting a vaccination and be aware of potential risks, says the ...

Among adults 65 and older, about 177,000 are hospitalized with RSV and 14,000 die annually. Worldwide, RSV kills about 100,000 children a year, mostly in poor countries. Why is there no vaccine?

RSV infections of the lungs and airways send up to 160,000 older adults to the hospital each year, at an annual cost of more than $1.3 billion, according to the Michigan Medicine report.

The amount of RSV detected in wastewater trended upward in many parts of the United States between August and October 2022, according to data from 20 states collected by WastewaterSCAN researchers.