This is just a sampling of medical advancements in 2024 chosen for their common presence in the American population. It is ...

HMPV virus is not a novel virus - It was first isolated in 2001 by Van den Hoogen and her colleagues in Netherlands in the ...

The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out ...

At the start of every week, our team talks with local experts to unpack a wide range of nationwide health, safety, and ...

Norman Regional Health System is alerting the community tonight about a surge they say they're seeing in flu and RSV cases.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, has dominated headlines with an influx of cases across the country and here in Western ...

As of Jan. 20, the CDC reports that RSV activity has peaked in most of the U.S., particularly among young children—a group ...

The following is a summary of “Respiratory syncytial virus vaccine effectiveness among US veterans, September, 2023 to March, 2024: a target trial emulation study,” published in the January 2025 issue ...

This review seeks to familiarize the readers with RSV rapid antigen-detection tests, describe their performance characteristics and comment on their strengths and weaknesses. The authors will ...

Diagnostic Testing for RSV Traditional microbiologic methods of diagnosis include cell culture, nucleic acid-amplification tests and immunofluorescence. Reverse transcriptase-PCR is the gold standard.

Hospital admissions for RSV continue to rise. The virus often resembles a common cold but can lead to prolonged coughing and wheezing in severe cases. It is currently less widespread than either ...

Researchers Use Biophysics to Design New Vaccines Against RSV and Related Respiratory Viruses Nov. 19, 2024 — In most people, the lung-infecting pathogens known as respiratory syncytial virus ...