In the agency’s updated vaccine recommendation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that children under the age of 19 months be vaccinated against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and that some young adults be vaccinated against monkeypox (mpox).
The recommendations come as the highly contagious RSV spreads throughout the nation. According to the CDC, between 60,000 and 120,000 Americans are hospitalized every year with RSV, while between 6,000 and 10,000 adults 65 years and older die from it. The seasonal virus affects the lungs and causes pneumonia and bronchiolitis, in which the small air passages swell.
