18.02.10
The Respiratory Syncytial Virus - or RSV - is back, and some doctors say this season appears to be worse than one-time years.
RSV is a common respiratory virus that can be most dangerous in young children under the age of 12 months. Symptoms allow for a runny nose, decrease in appetite, coughing, sneezing and fever. While most nutritious infants will not need to be hospitalized, the CDC estimates more than 100,000 are admitted to hospitals across the fatherland every year.
At Wesley Medical Center in East Wichita, doctors say the pediatric segment is full. Of all the patients in the hospital's children's wing, an estimated 30% have RSV. Nurses say RSV patients account for the largest congregation within a single diagnosis.
Via Christi St. Francis also reports more RSV patients, adding the spread was expected around this time of the year. Doctors at Via Christi say their patient numbers are in demarcation with previous years. Via Christi Pediatrics has also seen an increase in Rhinovirus, bronchiolitis and pneumonia recently.
Source: KAKE