It’s the season for respiratory illnesses, especially the flu, COVID and RSV. If you contract one of these sicknesses in Edgar County, you might see some new technology. The new equipment is ...

Paris Community Hospital Volunteers recently donated $5,000 toward the purchase of four Controlled Air Purifying Respirators (CAPRs) that protect responders when treating patients with respiratory ...

A helmet has one job and is designed to do it exactly once. But there’s dozens of different ways to accomplish this. Whether you’re hitting triple digits at the track or tackling muddy ruts in ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes cold-like symptoms in most people but can cause more serious problems in some, especially babies and older adults. Almost all children get RSV at least once by ...

Winter also marks the height of the respiratory virus season, a period of sniffles, sneezes, congestion, fever and other maladies brought about primarily by four pathogens: the respiratory syncytial ...

The trifecta of flu, COVID-19 and RSV is bad enough, but this year throw in other lesser but still consequential bugs, including norovirus. What can you do? Wash your hands, then wash them again later ...

One of the common ways bikers use the tech is for helmet intercoms – a combination of speakers and a control unit that can be fitted to your lid and then used to communicate with a pillion ...

A quadruple whammy of viruses – flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – is hitting the U.S. as the year comes to a close. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

Nearly 80% of infants born during the late 2023 and early 2024 respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season received protection against the virus, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network.

Cases of RSV across the country are considered "very high," as rates of other acute respiratory illnesses are also high, the CDC reported Monday. Here's what to know about RSV. Iowa currently is ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common, highly contagious illness that affects the nose, throat, and lungs. Although RSV usually causes mild illness with cold-like symptoms, the infection can ...

On top of that, the so-called “quad-demic” of flu, Covid, RSV and Norovirus that had been forecast in doom-laden newspaper headlines failed to materialise. “We’re not seeing a ‘quad ...