{"id":1245,"date":"2022-11-04T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:38","slug":"rsv-is-surging-what-we-know-about-this-common-and-surprisingly-dangerous-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/04\/rsv-is-surging-what-we-know-about-this-common-and-surprisingly-dangerous-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"RSV Is Surging: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/rsv-is-surging-what-we-know-about-this-common-and-surprisingly-dangerous-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific American<\/a>) As flu season picks up and experts weigh concerns about another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/new-omicron-variants-are-here-what-we-know-so-far\/\">possible COVID surge<\/a>, children\u2019s hospitals are already filling with patients with another viral threat: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Even though many people haven\u2019t heard of RSV, pretty much everyone has had it, probably multiple times, says Anthony Flores, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a physician at Children\u2019s Memorial Hermann Hospital. RSV is the leading cause of bronchiolitis\u2014inflammation of the lung\u2019s small airways\u2014in infants, and the virus is so common that nearly all children have encountered it by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfid.org\/infectious-diseases\/rsv\/\">their second birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" cJguacUo Igdg oN f GNMz e  sB\"> cJguacUo Igdg oN f GNMz e  sB<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Scientific American) As flu season picks up and experts weigh concerns about another\u00a0possible COVID surge, children\u2019s hospitals are already filling with patients with another viral threat: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Even though many people haven\u2019t heard of RSV, pretty much everyone has had it, probably multiple times, says Anthony Flores, chief of pediatric infectious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-rsv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}