Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Year of Infant Protection Breakthroughs

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The world's first maternal vaccine against RSV in neonates and infants was approved in August. This brief slide show highlights the clinical trials that made history.

A vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus for newborns and young infants has been elusive since a clinical trial in the mid-1960s that resulted in nearly all the study participants being hospitalized with the infection and the death of 2 infants.



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