Costs varied across 5 European countries, driven primarily by repeated primary care visits and parental work absences.
A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
A separate study found that 72% of infants were protected against RSV through maternal vaccination or infant receipt of nirsevimab in 2023-24.
Wastewater levels for COVID-19 are low, while for influenza A and RSV they are very low.
For patients with weakened immune systems, effectiveness was lower, at 67% for patients aged 60 to 74 years to 73% for those older than 75.
The 10 new flu-related deaths in children bring the season's total to 226, the most since 2009-10.
Hospitalizations of infants for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, and adenovirus fell dramatically.
The pediatric deaths push the season total to 216, surpassing last season's total of 207.
Flu-related deaths in children climb to 204, up 6 from the previous week, the CDC says.
The highest risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was in the first 72 hours at room temperature and first 24 hours at 37℃.
