Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospital admissions (IMAGE)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospital admissions

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In 2023, 241 children under 5 years of age were hospitalised with a laboratory-confirmed RSV infection (i.e. cases), compared with 389 cases in 2022, representing decreases of 38% (389 vs 241) in cases under 5 years of age and 69% (232 vs 72) in cases of infants under 6 months old (Figure 1). The peaks of the respective RSV epidemics occurred in week 47 in 2022 and in week 48 in 2023.

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