Commentary|Articles|December 12, 2023

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Year of Infant Protection Breakthroughs

Author(s)Grace Halsey

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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