Country music singer Lisa McHugh has told how her baby daughter spent 10 "horrendous" days in hospital after contracting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). RSV is a common, but highly infectious ...

Women who are 32 to 36 weeks pregnant between September and January can get the maternal RSV vaccine and pass that protection along to their baby. Otherwise, babies under 8 months old can get ...

There has been a pretty significant increase in RSV over the past month. Yes, we're trying to make it as fast and convenient for the doctor, or nurse, or whoever is doing the swab as possible.

"It stimulates the mother to produce RSV-specific antibodies, and they can actually travel across the placenta to the baby, so the baby then actually gains some protection from the mother's ...

Samples were obtained from toys in the sick and well-child waiting rooms of a 5-provider (4 MDs and 1 nurse practitioner) general pediatric practice in a suburban area in northern Virginia.

Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.