SRAG cases surge across Brazil as RSV, influenza A drive hospitalizations

Rising hospitalizations of children and adolescents from respiratory viruses across multiple Brazilian regions.

As the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches, Brazil finds itself navigating a familiar but sobering convergence — three respiratory viruses rising simultaneously across its vast and varied regions, filling hospital wards with the youngest and most vulnerable. Fiocruz's InfoGripe system, a sentinel watching over the nation's respiratory health, has recorded 77,000 severe cases already this year, a number that continues to climb through the final days of May and into June. The geography of illness is not uniform: RSV spreads almost everywhere, influenza A concentrates in the South, and rhinovir

SRAG cases surge across Brazil as RSV, influenza A drive hospitalizations

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