eight weeks here at children s minnesota, like other large pediatric health care organizations across the state, across the country and other systems in our state and the upper midwest, we ve been seeing an unusual and atypical increase in the number of children who require hospitalization for rsv. zblr so what are the symptoms that are different for younger kids versus older kids? because we at this point pick my kids are 6, 4, 2. i typically think of rsv as a virus that affects really little kids, babies. right. i never considered that an older child would be susceptible to that. the what should we be looking for? yeah, you hit it on the head. for older children the symptoms are basically a common cold. for younger children the kids get this significant amount of nasal congestion, nation sal drainage, cough, fever and in