Respiratory syncytial virus inpatients increase...87% of infants and toddlers.

Recently, the number of hospitalized patients with respiratory syncytial virus infection has increased, especially among infants under the age of 6, prompting quarantine authorities to pay attention.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of patients hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus infections has increased every week over the past four weeks, with 87% of them infants under the age of six.

Respiratory syncytial virus infections start with runny nose and pharyngitis symptoms and lead to coughing and wheezing symptoms within 3 days, and infants and immunocompromised individuals can progress to pneumonia.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also urged families with newborns and infants and postpartum care centers to strictly follow infection control rules as respiratory infectious diseases that are easy to progress to severe complications such as whooping cough and Mycoplasma pneumonia are prevalent at younger ages.