Impact of viral respiratory diseases on infants and young children in a rural and urban area of southern West Virginia

American Journal of Epidemiology
R B BelsheM A Mufson

Abstract

Acute viral respiratory disease occurring in children residing in the community of Huntington, West Virginia (urban children) or in the hollows surrounding Huntington (rural children) was evaluated from September 1978 through March 1980. Cohorts of ambulatory children residing in each area were studied for the occurrence of mild to moderate respiratory disease. All children admitted to hospitals were evaluated for the occurrence of severe viral respiratory disease. Respiratory secretions were obtained from children for isolation of viruses. Epidemics of illnesses occurred simultaneously in the urban and rural groups of children. Among both the urban and rural ambulatory children, adenoviruses were the most common viruses isolated, and respiratory syncytial virus was the second most common viral pathogen isolated. Among the urban and rural hospitalized children, respiratory syncytial virus was the most common virus isolated. The distribution of the diagnoses, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, or croup, was similar among the urban and rural children who required hospitalization. The risk of hospitalization because of respiratory disease was found to be one in every 20 children during the first four years of life, and the estimated risk o...Continue Reading

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