(NEXSTAR) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert Tuesday warning about a highly contagious respiratory illness detected especially among young children.

Pictures of packed school hallways in Georgia ... with covid-19 than their White peers. Early studies on children and the virus were small and conflicting. But accumulating evidence suggests ...

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Three research articles published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found significant rises in infections of a virus called ... and often mild, kids and adults with ...

RSV sends about 58,000 children under five years old to the hospital for intensive medical treatments, including hydration or supplemental oxygen. The virus also kills between 100 and 300 kids ...

This common virus can lead to a rare but serious polio-like complication known as acute flaccid myelitis. Symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis include limb weakness and paralysis.

"We have a group of kids now who’ve never seen the virus, because they weren’t having school exposures. So we think the at-risk population is bigger than in 2020," he said. The CDC is asking ...

Usually, children, senior citizens, pregnant women and people with existing comorbidities are most vulnerable. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) is a giant germ problem, especially for ...

particularly among children aged five to nine years. That age group has seen its positivity rate in tests for the virus jump from 15 percent in 2022 to 40 percent in June 2024. Commonly known as ...