RSV

The U.S. has approved the first vaccine for RSV, shots to protect older adults.

Federal health advisers have narrowly backed an experimental vaccine from Pfizer that could become the first shot to protect older adults against the respiratory illness known as RSV.

New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn’t spark surges in respiratory diseases.

Across the country, doctors are expecting a surge in illnesses like COVID-19, the flu and RSV in the next few weeks following the holidays.

It’s peak flu season and most of the county is feeling it.

UF Health, Baptist Health, Ascension St. Vincent’s, Memorial Hospital and Orange Park Medical are all dealing with patients suffering from the flu, COVID, or respiratory syncytia virus — commonly known as RSV.

Hospitals are filling up with people battling both flu and COVID as well as with pediatric patients suffering from RSV. This is what health experts have deemed as the ‘tripledemic’ and there’s concern that these infections will continue to spread.

Thanksgiving gatherings kick off a spike in other emergency visits as generations gather and swap germs.

The U.S. flu season is off to an unusually fast start.

The Flu, COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are all threats to people and hospitals this fall.

Health officials say an infected person can pass on RSV through a cough or sneeze.

Pediatric hospital beds are filling up more now than they have over the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

RSV cases in young children appear to be on the rise, which doctors say is unusual for this time of year. Normally, the respiratory virus starts to spread in the fall.

A local mother is urging people to take COVID-19 seriously after her 2-month-old daughter tested positive.

The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.

Doctors are seeing a lot of cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in children.