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Measuring virus levels in wastewater provides a crucial early-warning signal for the start of the annual respiratory syncytial virus season , according to research based in Ottawa and Hamilton.
That lead time is crucial for protecting some of the most vulnerable to deadly complications from RSV, which can cause severe illness in the elderly and very young. It is the leading cause of hospitalization among children under age two. Ontario administers monthly doses of preventative immunotherapy, called palivizumab, to the most vulnerable infants beginning at the start of RSV season. Having advance warning of when the virus would start to spread rapidly means health officials can be more accurate about when to begin doses of palivizumab to at-risk infants and children under two.
Delatolla said the study also found that the RSV season began earlier in Ottawa than in much of Ontario, something that could lead to more localized timing for administration of palivizumab.
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