The highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) typically causes mild illness, but it can lead to severe respiratory complications, particularly for at-risk individuals. Drawing on local ...

Oct. 18, 2024 – Older people who aren’t sure about whether to get the vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) now have a new set of data to help them make up their minds. A large study ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) --- Doctors recommend that people learn about the RSV vaccine as cold and flu season approaches Wisconsin. RSV, or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, is a common contagious virus that ...

Nov. 7—(StatePoint) Each year, as many as 80,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the United States. RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization in ...

Three months after revealing that its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) preventive antibody clesrovimab had passed muster in a phase 2b/3 trial, Merck is putting numbers to the claim. Clesrovimab ...

What is this silent virus that endangers Filipino Seniors with comorbidities? Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is not just another cold or flu—it is potentially life- threatening for seniors ...

A global real-world study of the vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) finds it offers folks aged 60 and over 80% protection against severe illness and/or hospitalization. With U.S ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently warned that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and mycoplasma pneumonia, or “walking pneumonia,” are on the rise among very young ...

Influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 are still the top three viruses to watch out for in the fall and winter, but several public health tools that have become available in the past year should help boost ...

Notably, quarterly sales of the company’s RSV vaccine, which became a blockbuster after debuting last year, fell by more than 70% year over year, in part due to narrower U.S. recommendations for ...

In years prior to the availability of an RSV vaccine, an estimated 60,000 to 160,000 RSV-associated hospitalizations and 6,000 to 10,000 RSV-associated deaths occurred annually among U.S. adults ...