Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a global pathogen that can cause severe respiratory tract illness. RSV infections can be especially dangerous for newborns and infants in general. A large-scale international vaccination study involving Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has now investigated the efficacy of an initial vaccine candidate. Participants were given the vaccine during pregnancy. As the researchers describe in The New England Journal of Medicine , up to 81 percent of the participants’ children were reliably protected against severe illness during the first six months of life.
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