RS virus leads to increased hospital admissions

Infants in the northeast are increasingly being hospitalized for an infection with the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Currently there are actually many more relatively severe infections in one and two-year-olds, confirmed Claudius Werner, pediatrician at the Helios-Klinikum Schwerin.

But there are also more cases:

Schwerin - The reason for the accumulation is the relaxation of the corona protective measures.

The children who have not been infected in the past two years because of masks, less contact with other people and the distance rules, are now making up for this, according to the expert.

As early as the end of July, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) had recommended strengthening outpatient and inpatient care for autumn and winter, “in view of the additional exposure to be expected from acute respiratory infections that will occur in the 2020/21 season due to the contact-reducing measures in the last season did not circulate in the population, such as

B. Influenza and RSV ".

Larger outbreaks of RSV among children were reported in Israel in May and in the United States, Australia and Japan during the summer months.

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RKI expects corona increase for autumn and winter

According to the RKI, the RS virus is a globally widespread pathogen causing acute diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract at all ages. Nevertheless, premature babies and children with previous illnesses in particular are listed as persons at risk. Werner explained that the infection is more dangerous for children by stating that the pathogens penetrate deeper into the airways in small children and can thus also lead to pneumonia.

All of the larger clinics in the northeast said they had children between 0 and 4 years of age with an RSV infection in treatment on Tuesday.

The clinics in Schwerin, Rostock and Neubrandenburg also confirmed an unusual accumulation of cases compared to other years, but nowhere was any imminent overload reported.

From Rostock it was said: “We are also expecting an increasing number of cases in the coming weeks.

We are prepared for that. ”Dpa