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New RSV Preventives Dramatically Reduce Infant Illness and Death

 

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This article is part of “ Innovations In: RSV ,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from MSD, Sanofi and AstraZeneca .

While pregnant with her third child last year, Alison Carroll pondered options that hadn’t been available during her first two pregnancies: not one but two ways to help prevent her newborn from ending up in the hospital, fighting for breath because of a severe infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

A pediatric hospitalist herself, she already had for years witnessed and treated the worst of RSV’s ravages in children, including a scary situation that landed her own daughter, Stella, in the same wing of Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, where Carroll works.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-rsv-preventatives-dramatically-reduce-infant-illness-and-death/