The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is gaining ground on the other side of the Atlantic. Several American media, including CNN and the New York Timesreport that pediatric wards are “overwhelmed.”
According to official data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of patients identified each day has risen sharply for two months, as it has multiplied by five, our colleagues at the Parisian.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’ve never seen this,” Juan Salazar, chief physician at a children’s hospital in Connecticut, told CNN.
The fear of a “triple epidemic”
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a winter virus that affects the bronchioles, the small bronchi of very young children. It is this virus that is responsible for bronchiolitis. Despite the impressive symptoms – coughing, rapids and wheezing – most often it is a mild disease.
Except that with Covid and the flu, US authorities fear “a triple epidemic” this winter, with medical services overwhelmed by the influx of patients.
Especially since RSV also affects the elderly and immunocompromised. Every year, some 14,000 adults aged 65 and over and up to 300 children under the age of five die from it on the other side of the Atlantic. The Parisian.
Source: BFM TV
