RSV can affect the lower respiratory tract ... and 6,000 to 10,000 deaths in older adults each year. The virus is highly transmissible, and a person can contract it via droplets released into ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are the leading ... RSV infection does not provoke lasting immunity, so human hosts experience lifelong cycles of infection and re-infection.

In 2023, 241 children under 5 years of age were hospitalised with a laboratory-confirmed RSV infection (i.e. cases), compared with 389 cases in 2022, representing decreases of 38% (389 vs 241 ...