RSV Bulletin
NATIONAL WEEKLY RSV BULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
week 5 of 2025 (27.01.25 - 02.02.25)
Non-sentinel surveillance data were received from 34 cities (Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Kirov, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Petropavlovsk, Samara, St. Petersburg, Simferopol, Syktyvkar, Tomsk, Tula, Ulyanovsk, Khabarovsk, Chita, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yakutsk, and Yaroslavl) located in 7 Federal Districts. A total of 9770 patients with ARVI were tested by PCR for RSV, of which 182 (1.9%) were positive. This included 81 (6.5%) cases aged 0-2 years, 59 (5.0%) cases aged 3-6 years, 10 (0.7%) cases aged 7-14 years and 32 (0.5%) cases aged 15 years and older.

Week
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0-2
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3-6
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7-14
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15+
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% positive
PCR testing data for RSV from week 40 of 2024 to week 05 of 2025 showed a total 157837 patients were investigated, including 19521 children aged 0-2 years, 16638 children aged 3-6 years, 25732 children aged 7-14 years and 95946 patients aged 15 years or older. RSV as a cause of acute respiratory infection was more commonly detected among children aged 0-2 years.
The cumulative detection rate among children aged 0-2 years from week 40 of 2024 to week 05 of 2025 was 1.7%. Among children aged 3-6 years, the detection rate was 1.1%, among children aged 7-14 years - 0.3%. The RSV detection rate among patients aged 15 years or older was 0.2%.

Age groups
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Number of positives
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% positive
In the period from week 40 of 2024 to week 05 of 2025, RSV was detected in all weeks. The average RSV detection rate was approximately 0.5%. The highest weekly detection rate of approximately 1.9% was reported on week 05 2025.