Do you have a post-holiday cold? What you need to know about RSV and all the other respiratory viruses circulating
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Are you feeling a bit under the weather coming out of the holiday season? You might just be battling the common cold but it could also be one of a myriad of other respiratory infections that are circulating at this time of year, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
Are you feeling a bit under the weather coming out of the holiday season?
You might just be battling the common cold but it could also be one of a myriad of other respiratory infections that are circulating at this time of year, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
RSV, as it is more commonly known, is a infection that in most people, typically presents itself like a common cold with most children under the age of two getting it at some point.
Anyone who contracts the virus typically presents symptoms like a fever, coughing, sneezing and a runny nose.
"The issue is that there are some adults who are much more likely to develop severe disease, and those are individuals who are older and individuals who have underlying conditions, and, in particular, older individuals that also have underlying conditions are at an elevated risk of developing severe disease," Shelly Bolotin, director for the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Toronto, told CTV News Toronto in an interview.
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"There's been in Ontario a rise of laboratory confirmed infection in the last month or so," Bolotin said, adding cases can peak anywhere between November and April.
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