5 days ago · One of the silver linings during the COVID-19 pandemic was that the virus didn’t affect children as severely as it did adults. Still, even though they were much less prone to need ...

3 days ago · The research team has now also observed such a flare-up of Epstein-Barr virus infection in children with PIMS. For the study, they examined 145 children between the ages of 2 and 18 who had been treated for PIMS at the Charité Children's Hospital or hospitals in Lyon (France), Naples (Italy), Ankara (Turkey), or Santiago (Chile).

Feb 20, 2025 · That’s part of the systematic underestimation of measles, because that was so many people’s experience with it. But what we know about measles is that even in the United States, you had about 5% of kids with measles getting pneumonia, maybe five to 10% of kids at that time getting hospitalized, roughly one to two in a thousand kids dying.

5 days ago · Peaks of co-detected parainfluenza 3 and Respiratory syncytial virus were evident in the winter of 2022 and absent in 2021. The top three viral strain for co-detection was HRV/EV, PIV-3, and RSV.

Mar 7, 2025 · The virus is airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It most commonly affects kids. “On average, one infected person may infect about 15 other people,” said Scott Weaver, a center of excellence director for the Global Virus Network, an international coalition.

Feb 28, 2025 · Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, where measles patients from the current outbreak are being treated, didn’t ...

Feb 21, 2025 · This season is now classified as a high severity season overall and for all age groups (children, adults, older adults) and is the first high severity season since 2017-2018. ... To date, human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A(H5) virus (H5 bird flu) has not been identified in the United States. • Outpatient respiratory illness ...

A (H3N2): 204 A(H3N2) viruses were antigenically characterized by HI or HINT, and 112 (54.9%) were well-recognized (reacting at titers that were within 4-fold of the homologous virus titer in HI or reacting at titers that were less than or equal to 8-fold of the homologous virus in HINT) by ferret antisera to cell-grown A/Massachusetts/18/2022 ...

Sep 26, 2024 · In addition to CDC’s Respiratory Virus Guidance, there are several specific considerations for people who are at higher risk for severe illness, including young children. Immunizations are an important strategy to reduce young children's risk of serious illness from some common respiratory viruses.

Virus. Say: VY-rus. A virus is a very tiny type of germ. Viruses (say: VY-ruh-sez) can get inside the body and make a person sick. Viruses cause colds, chickenpox, measles, the flu, and many other illnesses. Antibiotics only work on bacteria, not viruses.