RSV causes 1 in 50 deaths in children under age 5, mostly in low-income and middle-income countries. In high-income nations, study found that 1 in 56 otherwise healthy babies are hospitalized with RSV during their first year of life. MedTwitter
The respiratory illness RSV causes 1 in 50 deaths in children under age 5, mostly in low-income and middle-income countries, a new study says.
"This is the lowest-risk baby who is being hospitalized for this, so really, numbers are really much higher than I think some people would have guessed," said study co-author Louis Bont, MD, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands,. He is also chairman of the ReSViNET foundation, which aims to reduce RSV infection globally.
In developed nations, children who get RSV usually survive because they have access to ventilators and other health care equipment. Still, just being treated for RSV can have long-range negative effects on a child's health, Kristina Deeter, MD, chair of pediatrics at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine told CNN.
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