Why There Isn’t an RSV Vaccine to Combat the Current Surge

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Why There Isn’t an RSV Vaccine to Combat the Current Surge
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The virus has been a problem for a while. What took so long?

in preventing severe respiratory tract infections in babies for the first three months of life. Pfizer is planning to submit the results of the trial to the Food and Drug Administration by the end of this year.

An RSV vaccine would be welcome news for parents. But again, RSV has been around for a while. What took so long? The fact that children are the target population for the vaccine is the major challenge, says Julia Hurwitz, an infectious disease researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at Memphis. She’s working on developing an intranasal RSV vaccine for babies, which is currently in Phase I trial, and will also target human parainfluenza virus infection in children.

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