. 2026 Jan 15;31(2):2500275. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2026.31.2.2500275

Table 1. Demographic, risk factors and outcomes for hospitalised RSV cases by jurisdiction (n = 3,998) and test-negative controls (n = 3,425), Australia, 2024 .

Characteristics	RSV cases by jurisdiction																Total RSV cases (n = 3,998)			Test-negative controls (n = 3,425)
	New South Wales (n = 566)		Victoria (n = 1,510)		Queensland (n = 452)		Western Australia (n = 647)		South Australia (n = 552)		Tasmania (n = 80)		Northern Territory (n = 161)		Australia Capital Territory (n = 30)^a		Total RSV cases (n = 3,998)			Test-negative controls (n = 3,425)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n		%	n	%
Age group
< 3 months	102	18.0	293	19.4	41	9.1	46	7.1	116	21.0	9	11.3	17	10.6	0	0	624		15.6	218	6.4
3–5 months	71	12.5	146	9.7	25	5.5	27	4.2	58	10.5	7	8.8	10	6.2	0	0	344		8.6	97	2.8
6–11 months	94	16.6	211	14.0	64	14.2	69	10.7	93	16.8	10	12.5	25	15.5	0	0	566		14.2	205	6.0
12–23 months	134	23.7	305	20.2	123	27.2	205	31.7	127	23.0	13	16.3	29	18.0	0	0	936		23.4	250	7.3
2–4 years	71	12.5	233	15.4	86	19.0	187	28.9	72	13.0	7	8.8	23	14.3	0	0	679		17.0	293	8.5
5–17 years	40	7.1	112	7.4	27	6.0	36	5.6	34	6.2	3	3.8	15	9.3	0	0	267		6.7	296	8.6
18–59 years	15	2.7	62	4.1	21	4.6	19	2.9	12	2.2	8	10.0	20	12.4	5	16.7	162		4.1	1,066	31.1
60–74 years	14	2.5	60	4.0	20	4.4	22	3.4	17	3.1	5	6.3	15	9.3	11	36.7	164		4.1	445	13.0
≥ 75 years	25	4.4	88	5.8	45	10.0	36	5.6	23	4.2	18	22.5	7	4.3	14	46.7	256		6.4	555	16.2
Sex
Male	312	55.1	792	52.5	238	52.7	347	53.6	298	54.0	36	45.0	83	51.6	14	46.7	2120		53.0	1,818	53.1
Female	243	42.9	716	47.5	214	47.3	300	46.4	254	46.0	44	55.0	78	48.4	16	53.3	1865		46.6	1,604	46.8
Other/not reported	11	1.9	2	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13		0.3	3	<0.1
Ethnicity^b
First Nations	14	2.5	36	2.4	37	8.2	57	8.8	27	4.9	12	15.0	82	50.9	3	10.0	268		6.7	383	11.2
Not First Nations	552	97.5	1,474	97.6	415	91.8	590	91.2	525	95.1	68	85.0	79	49.1	27	90.0	3,730		93.3	3,042	88.8
Underlying medical conditions
Yes	224	39.6	657	43.5	255	56.4	187	28.9	198	35.9	39	48.8	72	44.7	29	96.7	1,661	41.5		2,165	63.2
No	342	60.4	853	56.5	197	43.6	460	71.1	354	64.1	41	51.3	89	55.3	1	3.3	2,337	58.5		1,260	36.8
Admitted to ICU or HDU
Yes	43	7.6	109	7.2	38	8.4	33	5.1	23	4.2	4	5.0	9	5.6	6	20.0	265	6.6		296	8.6
No	523	92.4	1401	92.8	414	91.6	614	94.9	529	95.8	76	95.0	152	94.4	24	80.0	3,733	93.4		3,129	91.4
In-hospital mortality
Yes	1	0.2	11	0.7	2	0.4	6	0.9	5	0.9	1	1.3	1	0.6	1	3.3	28	0.7		60	1.8
No	565	99.8	1499	99.3	450	99.6	641	99.1	547	99.1	79	98.8	160	99.4	29	96.7	3,970	99.3		3,365	98.2

HDU: high dependency unit; ICU: intensive care unit; RSV: respiratory syncytial virus.

^a No paediatric cases recruited from the Australian Capital Territory.

^b First Nations status included all Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people based on self-report on medical records.

Table 1. Demographic, risk factors and outcomes for hospitalised RSV cases by jurisdiction (n = 3,998) and test-negative controls (n = 3,425), Australia, 2024 .

Table 1. Demographic, risk factors and outcomes for hospitalised RSV cases by jurisdiction (n = 3,998) and test-negative controls (n = 3,425), Australia, 2024 .