DECRYPTION – The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affects the entire population, but poses a problem at both ends of life.
We know its impact on infants, less on the elderly. And yet: generally present throughout the winter season, RSV affects the entire population, but poses a problem at both extremes of life: during the first 6 weeks, and after 70 years.
Or “there is no surveillance network for RSV in adults in France, but we know that the elderly can suffer from serious pneumopathies with this virus, recalls Professor Christophe Trivalle, geriatrician at the Paul-Brousse hospital (Villejuif). At the hospital, we carry out precise analyzes which allow us to confirm the significant circulation of RSV, which can give rise to real epidemics in the community, such as influenza or the Covid.”
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