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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [a] also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. [2] Its name is derived from the large cells known as syncytia that form when infected cells fuse. [2] [3]
A respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, or RSV vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus. [1] RSV affects an estimated 64 million people and causes 160,000 deaths worldwide each year. [2] The RSV vaccines Arexvy , [3] Abrysvo , [4] and Mresvia [5] are approved for medical use in the United States.
The common cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract which can be caused by many different viruses. The most commonly implicated is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes. [33] Other commonly implicated viruses include coronaviruses, adenoviruses, enteroviruses, parainfluenza and RSV. [34]
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The other three people who died were 65 years old and over. So far, there haven’t been reports of lab-confirmed RSV-related deaths among children under 5 years old during the 2023-2024 winter ...
New RSV vaccines are now available to help prevent serious infection in people over 60. Doctors explain the RSV vaccine and its side effects in older adults.
The death toll was enormous; throughout the world around 50 million people died from the infection. [193] There were 550,000 reported deaths caused by the disease in the US, ten times the country's losses during the First World War, [ 194 ] and 228,000 deaths in the UK. [ 195 ]
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