Itโs โsick kids season.โ Hereโs 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
Low 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
Chinaโs 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
RSV infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital emergency departments in Georgia, Texas and some other states.
โShe declined so fastโ: Parents, doctors warn of RSV as cases increase across San Antonio
The 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
Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another โtripledemic."
New drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval ahead of cold season
U.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
Federal 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
While 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? Hereโs 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
A 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 kidsโ health, doctors say
Last year, health experts warned parents about the potential for a twindemic โ 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
A Texas Department of State Health Services dashboard, updated Monday afternoon, shows just 42 available, staffed pediatric ICU beds across the state. In San Antonioโs 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
For the past few years, the flu was held in check but itโs making a comeback, according to a pediatrician with the Childrenโs Hospital of San Antonio.
Mother warns others of rising RSV cases after daughters hospitalized with respiratory illness
Over the past couple of weeks, Methodist Childrenโs 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
Why 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
Why 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.
San Antonio hospitals see surge of childrenโs respiratory illness. One mother shares her story
Across the country, hospitals are filling up with children fighting respiratory illnesses.
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Pediatricians seeing uptick in RSV, COVID-19 cases as students return to school
Pediatricians 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.
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Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parents
The 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.