Each year in the UK, 30,000 children under the age of five are hospitalised with RSV and it causes around 30 infant deaths.

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Babies born very prematurely will be offered protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with a long-acting antibody ...

Vaccination of pregnant women has been linked to a drop in newborns being admitted to hospital with a serious lung infection, ...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) ... Treatment and prognosis. Since respiratory syncytial virus closely imitates other respiratory illnesses, it can be difficult to identify without a test.

In the first year of life, 65 per cent of babies get infected by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). This causes bronchiolitis, and is thought to kill nearly 200,000 children every year worldwide.

Jaxtyn was nearly 2-weeks-old when he caught respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, that left him hospitalized. Courtesy of Dorina Bryant It took Jaxtyn’s lungs two months to recover.

Respiratory syncytial virus is one of the leading causes of death for infants globally, and a safe vaccine is badly needed. ... Currently, treatment for RSV consists of monoclonal antibodies.

The French pharma will pay $1.15 billion upfront to buy Vicebio and gain access to non-mRNA vaccine candidates against RSV ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an infectious respiratory disease that can look and sound a lot like a cold, with coughing, sneezing and a runny nose. But RSV can turn serious and send some ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ... The aim of treatment is to make the child as comfortable as possible while the body’s immune system battles the infection.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading viral cause of acute lower respiratory infections and associated deaths among infants and children worldwide, underlying an estimated 33.8 million ...