The Egyptian Health Ministry announced that “respiratory syncytial virus is not a dangerous disease”, explaining that its prevalence rates are high and that the incubation period of the virus ranges from 4 to 6 days and the recovery period lasts from one to two weeks.
virus symptoms
Hossam Hosni, head of the Corona Science Committee at the Egyptian Ministry of Health, indicated that symptoms of respiratory diseases in children, such as syncytial virus, were “breathing difficulties, fever, runny nose, vomiting and sore throat”.
He stressed that a specialist doctor must be visited when any of these symptoms appear on the child to receive proper treatment and care, noting that the ministry has a strong epidemiological monitoring system of infectious diseases in 27 facilities.
It appeared, it disappeared, and then it came back
He explained that since 2020 a few simple cases have been diagnosed and then the disease disappeared and that in October and November 2022 the seasonal attack of this virus began to be monitored.
He said the pathological symptoms of the virus are simple to moderate, but its prevalence rates are high, pointing out that there is no antibiotic to cure this disease because it is viral and not bacterial, and that there is still no vaccine for it, due to the periodic change of the proteins of the virus.
Methods of treatment
He added: “But there is a treatment that is given to very young children,” stressing that the most important methods of treating simple symptoms are home comfort and the use of fever reducers with doctor’s instructions, putting warn against the incorrect use of antibiotics in such pathological conditions.
However, he explained that death rates from the virus are limited worldwide, adding: ‘Not all cases infected with syncytial virus need hospitalization and only 1-2% of infected people need to be retained by all cases infected with syncytial virus”.
