RSV cases surpass 2024 numbers as flu notifications exceed 13,000 despite strong immunisation uptake
Despite a winter increase in respiratory syncital virus, despite strong vaccination purchases, the number of cases also exceeded them last year.
The latest figures reveal that 4124 cases have been reported to the Ministry of Health from 3299 this time last year.
“RSV notifications increased last week in accordance with the increase in increasing tendency,” the department said.
Especially in Goldfields, Midwest and Pilbara regions are increasing.
Especially with an increase in children’s admission, there was 129 more accepting hospitals, which brought the annual total to 881.
Thanks to WA’s free RSV vaccination program for babies, less than the number of acceptances last year. Strong purchases, more than 500 families in the last winter saw that they stayed in the hospital.
More than 2000 of the existing extremely infectious virus cases are children under five years of age, although more than 16,500 babies and pregnant women have been vaccinated against the virus so far.
RSV is a common but extremely infectious virus that infects the airway and lungs. It is easily spread with cough and sneezing.
More than half of all babies will be infected before their first birthdays, and in WA, one out of every 30 babies is taken to hospital with RSV every year.
Symptoms include nasal discharge, fever, cough, sneezing and reduced appetite. It is usually mild, but can cause other more serious diseases such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis.
It can also increase the risk of longer -term respiratory problems such as childhood asthma.
The RSV flow comes in the middle of a flument of fear and now exceeds 13,000, and in the coming weeks it will exceed 2024 total.
At the beginning of this month, the Ministry of Health sent an urgent reminder to medical staff to ensure that they had given RSV vaccination towards RSV after receiving 13 reports about the wrong Jab given to the Western Australians between February and June.
No negative incident was reported.
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