Pediatric hospitals across the U.S. are reporting an unexpected rise in serious infections caused by RSV.
In June, the CDC warned that pediatric hospitals in the South were seeing an unusual rise in children sickened with RSV.At Salt Lake City's Primary Children's Hospital, there has been an uptick in positive tests for RSV in the past few weeks, according to Dr. Per Gesteland, who is based at the Utah hospital.
One reason for the concern, he said, is that the unseasonal RSV spike is happening in tandem with a rise in pediatric COVID-19 cases, due to the more contagiousAt some other hospitals, experts have warned that the combined trends are stretching resources thin. Last week, There is no vaccine against RSV. But, Kociolek said, there is a way to help prevent severe infections in certain high-risk youngsters: an injection medication called palivizumab.
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