RSV Posted or Updated on 3 Sep 2025

The Surgery will be offering RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccine to patients who turn 75 and those aged 75-79 years. This will also be offered to pregnant ladies.

RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including:

• cough
• sore throat
• sneezing
• a runny or blocked nose

It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system.