Syncytial virus, the Ministry of Health indicates prevention measures - Healthcare. "Avoid close contact with sick people, wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth, follow good respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette" these are the measures to prevent virus contagion.

The respiratory syncytia virus (RSV) is "a highly transmissible virus that causes annual epidemics during autumn and winter in temperate climates" The World Health Organization estimates that this virus causes 33 million acute lower respiratory tract infections worldwide every year.