RSV is still a threat, especially in Canada’s North. But new treatments and vaccines are on the way

Radziminski said the “significant RSV activity” last year was between June and October. In the Arctic, it can be up to 30 per cent of the babies or even more in remote communities. Inuit babies also get sicker and stay in the hospital longer. “We’ve known for a long time that Inuit babies have four to eight times the rate of hospital admission due to RSV, compared to the premature babies or the cardiac babies” with RSV, Banerji said. A study that Banerji was involved in compared sick and healthy Inuit babies.