Thousands of people are hospitalised with respiratory syncytial virus every winter
RSV
Some symptoms demand you seek urgent medical care
Staff and visitors may be required to wear masks due to high rates of flu and Covid-19 circulating
It takes a village - but sometimes the village should keep its hands to itself
Stephen Donnelly says there were 80 per cent fewer patients waiting on trolleys over Christmas weekend, compared to same period in 2022
Call to extend immunisation programme for babies based on trial outcome in UK, France and Germany
Exact prevalence of Covid not known as only limited testing carried out but flu levels remain well below those recorded this time last year
Number of people hospitalised with RSV falls, but flu and Covid-19 hospital numbers are up
Almost 370 patients, most of them children, were hospitalised with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) last week
On one day during a visit to St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny, 70 per cent of patients are aged over 65
Almost 300 people were hospitalised with RSV virus last week, most of them children
HSE expressed alarm that just 11.5 per cent of HSE staff have Covid-19 booster and 24.3 per cent the flu vaccine
ICUs in children’s hospitals under pressure with more than 400 cases of virus reported in first week of November
Common virus causes coughs and colds and is the main cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in very young children
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