{"id":4535,"date":"2023-09-05T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:37:55","slug":"rsv-advisory-issued-by-the-u-s-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/05\/rsv-advisory-issued-by-the-u-s-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"RSV Advisory Issued by the U.S. CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/2023\/09\/05\/rsv-advisory-issued-us-cdc\">Precision Vaccinations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced a\u00a0Health Alert Network\u00a0Health Advisory CDCHAN-00498 to notify clinicians and caregivers about increased respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity in\u00a0the Southeastern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, such regional increases have predicted the beginning of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/rsv-season-2023\">RSV season<\/a>&nbsp;in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across both prepandemic and pandemic years, RSV circulation began in Florida, said the CDC on September 5, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Florida Department of Health&nbsp;segmented reports into five RSV regions, each with its own RSV season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/diseases-and-conditions\/respiratory-illness\/respiratory-syncytial-virus\/_documents\/2023-w35rsv-summary.pdf\">#35<\/a>, September\u00a02, 2023, Florida&#8217;s RSV activity had\u00a0increased\u00a0admission, positivity, and emergency room\u00a0rates, but\u00a0no\u00a0current outbreaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In anticipation of the onset of the 2023-2024 RSV season, the CDC encourages clinicians to prepare to implement new RSV prevention options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new monoclonal antibody product,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/vaccines\/beyfortus-nirsevimab-rsv-antibody-2023\">Beyfortus\u2122<\/a>&nbsp;(Nirsevimab-alip), protects infants and some&nbsp;young children at higher risk&nbsp;for severe RSV disease. Its availability in the U.S. is expected in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, two new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/vaccines\/rsv-vaccines-2023\">RSV vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;are available to protect older adults from severe RSV disease: RSVPreF3 (Arexvy, GSK)&nbsp;or&nbsp;RSVpreF (Abrysvo, Pfizer), based on shared clinical decision-making between the healthcare provider and the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the CDC recommends healthcare personnel, childcare providers, and staff at long-term care facilities should stay home and not go to work when they have a fever or symptoms of respiratory infection to reduce the spread of respiratory infections, including RSV.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision Vaccinations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced a\u00a0Health Alert Network\u00a0Health Advisory CDCHAN-00498 to notify clinicians and caregivers about increased respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity in\u00a0the Southeastern United States. Historically, such regional increases have predicted the beginning of the&nbsp;RSV season&nbsp;in the U.S. Across both prepandemic and pandemic years, RSV circulation began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/4535","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}