Infectious disease experts shared input on RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) — and whether or not adults and children can be infected with it more than once as the county experiences a surge of illness.
"CDC is now publishing weekly hospitalization rates for laboratory-confirmed RSV hospitalizations, as determined through the RSV-NET sentinel surveillance system," a CDC spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Many people focus on those who are at high risk of RSV, such as premature infants, young children with heart defects at birth and chronic lung disease — or those who haveBut these patients only account for a third of hospitalizations, said Dr. James H. Conway, pediatric infectious disease physician and medical director of the immunization program at UW Health Kids in Madison, Wisconsin.
Adult RSV hospitalization rates have also increased,"with the highest hospitalization rates in adults occurring in those 65 years and older," said a CDC spokesperson. "Similar to influenza, there are multiple strains of RSV, so there's an RSV-A [strain] and there's an RSV-B [strain] — just like there's flu [type] A and flu [type] B," Conway told Fox News Digital.
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