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It’s ‘sick kids season.’ Here’s how to manage.
Read full article: It’s ‘sick kids season.’ Here’s how to manage.Doctors offices and urgent cares are busy treating kids with a range of respiratory viruses. Basics like handwashing can help keep them healthy, and even chicken soup can help if they are ill.
University Health shares respiratory disease rates as CDC issues warning about low immunizations
Read full article: University Health shares respiratory disease rates as CDC issues warning about low immunizationsLow vaccination rates and an increase in respiratory diseases could strain health care system, CDC says
China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
Read full article: China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogensChina’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus.
RSV is straining some hospitals, and US officials are releasing more shots for newborns
Read full article: RSV is straining some hospitals, and US officials are releasing more shots for newbornsRSV infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital emergency departments in Georgia, Texas and some other states.
‘She declined so fast’: Parents, doctors warn of RSV as cases increase across San Antonio
Read full article: ‘She declined so fast’: Parents, doctors warn of RSV as cases increase across San AntonioThe CDC issued a Health Alert Network Health Advisory to provide options for doctors to protect infants from RSV as there is a limited supply of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody immunization to help with RSV.
Updated COVID shots are coming. They're part of a trio of vaccines to block fall viruses
Read full article: Updated COVID shots are coming. They're part of a trio of vaccines to block fall virusesUpdated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."
New drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval ahead of cold season
Read full article: New drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval ahead of cold seasonU.S. officials have approved a new long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that causes thousands of hospitalizations each year.
FDA panel narrowly backs Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults
Read full article: FDA panel narrowly backs Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adultsFederal 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.
Why were RSV, flu so severe this season? KSAT Explains
Read full article: Why were RSV, flu so severe this season? KSAT ExplainsWhile COVID is still out there, it's the viruses that have long been circulating that sent so many kids to the hospital this cold and flu season. Things like RSV and the flu. So what made this year so unusual?
Your child has a viral rash, but which one is it? Here’s a comparison.
Read full article: Your child has a viral rash, but which one is it? Here’s a comparison.This year has been extreme when it comes to the spread of viruses like the flu, RSV and COVID. These illnesses are hitting kids especially hard. Among the many symptoms of a viral infection is a rash.
Doctor weighs in on increase of respiratory tract viruses across San Antonio
Read full article: Doctor weighs in on increase of respiratory tract viruses across San AntonioA high number of flu cases are normal for this time of year in South Texas, but lately, doctors in San Antonio are treating and seeing more patients with RSV or COVID-19.
Tripledemic threatens kids’ health, doctors say
Read full article: Tripledemic threatens kids’ health, doctors sayLast year, health experts warned parents about the potential for a twindemic – cases of COVID and the flu rising during the winter. Now, the threat of a tripledemic remains, which is three viruses circulating, that can make kids seriously sick.
Shortage of pediatric ICU beds amid early flu season, RSV cases
Read full article: Shortage of pediatric ICU beds amid early flu season, RSV casesA Texas Department of State Health Services dashboard, updated Monday afternoon, shows just 42 available, staffed pediatric ICU beds across the state. In San Antonio’s region, which covers nearly 2.9 million people and stretches to the Mexican border, there were only nine available.
Flu season comes back with high number of cases, along with other sicknesses spreading in Bexar County
Read full article: Flu season comes back with high number of cases, along with other sicknesses spreading in Bexar CountyFor the past few years, the flu was held in check but it’s making a comeback, according to a pediatrician with the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio.
Mother warns others of rising RSV cases after daughters hospitalized with respiratory illness
Read full article: Mother warns others of rising RSV cases after daughters hospitalized with respiratory illnessOver the past couple of weeks, Methodist Children’s Hospital has seen an increase in ER visits directly related to respiratory illnesses like the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
University Health epidemiologist answers questions about influenza, flu shot
Read full article: University Health epidemiologist answers questions about influenza, flu shotWhy are so many children sick right now? Dr. Mandie Tibball Svatek, University Health pediatric hospitalist and UT Health SA associate professor answers some of parents' most asked questions.
University Health pediatrician answers parents questions about RSV, other viruses
Read full article: University Health pediatrician answers parents questions about RSV, other virusesWhy are so many children sick right now? Dr. Mandie Tibball Svatek, University Health pediatric hospitalist and UT Health SA associate professor answers some of parents' most asked questions.
Pediatricians seeing uptick in RSV, COVID-19 cases as students return to school
Read full article: Pediatricians seeing uptick in RSV, COVID-19 cases as students return to schoolPediatricians with UT Health San Antonio say they have seen a recent spike in COVID-19 cases in children as well as a rise in other diseases.
Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parents
Read full article: Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parentsThe 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.