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2. Some hospitals seeing increase in RSV, 'walking pneumonia ...

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   Officials said the increase in hospital visits is due to a spread of RSV and walking pneumonia in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Additionally, University of North Carolina hospitals reported 40 ...

3. How Children's Hospitals Are Handling RSV Surge - AOL

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   Kelly Soares recalls when her 11-month-old Brielle was in the intensive care unit for RSV at Phoenix Children's Hospital. "It was hard to deal with, to be honest, to see your child suffer and have ...

4. RSV is on the rise. How to recognize it and treat the symptoms

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   RSV is a common virus that affects both the upper respiratory system, which includes the nose and throat, and the lower respiratory system, which includes the lungs, according to Children's ...

5. Respiratory syncytial virus - Wikipedia

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   Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [a] also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. [2] Its name is derived from the large cells known as syncytia that form when infected cells fuse. [2] [3]

6. Transmission-based precautions - Wikipedia

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   Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...

7. Isolation (health care) - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, disease isolation is an important infection prevention and control practice used to protect others from disease. [6] Disease isolation can prevent healthcare-acquired infections of hospital-acquired infections (HCAIs), reduce threats of antibiotic resistance infections, and respond to new and emerging infectious disease threats ...