In January 2026, the “Frontiers” website published an article titled "Six-year epidemiological dynamics of human respiratory syncytial virus infections in children in central China (2019-2024): pandemic suppression, 2023 resurgence, and immune debt effect". One of the co-authors of the article was Igor Mokrousov, PhD, head, Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics at St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute.