A single injection could protect babies against RSV over winter
Parents with babies could soon be offered an antibody injection around the start of winter that will help protect their child against the respiratory syncytial virus over the entire season, when RSV infections peak. There is currently no option available for protecting healthy babies against the virus, which can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in infants less than a year old.
A trial involving 3000 infants has shown that this factory-made antibody, called nirsevimab …[read more]
