{"id":488894,"date":"2025-10-10T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488894\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:39:20","slug":"rsv-injections-to-protect-thousands-of-babies-from-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488894\/","title":{"rendered":"RSV injections to protect thousands of babies from infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elowyn&#8217;s mother, Molly, said she is grateful to Harry and the other trialists because &#8220;if they didn&#8217;t happen then we wouldn&#8217;t have had the chance to give her (Elowyn) the extra protection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A jab that can be given to pregnant women was introduced last year but it doesn&#8217;t cover some babies who are born prematurely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine out of 10 children will get RSV before the age of two, but in most cases it is not diagnosed as the symptoms present as a cough or a cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial was supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and now Nirsevimab \u2013 which offers six months&#8217; protection in a single dose \u2013 will replace monthly injections of palivizumab, previously offered to a smaller number of vulnerable babies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/2025\/07\/nhs-to-roll-out-long-lasting-suit-of-armour-jab-to-protect-thousands-of-premature-babies-from-rsv\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clinical trial data, external<\/a>, palivizumab provides about 55% protection while Nirsevimab offers more than 80% protection against the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that preterm babies are a particularly vulnerable group&#8221; said Dr Paulson, who works at University Hospital Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve got underdeveloped lungs, they&#8217;ve got immature immune systems, both of which make them particularly susceptible to really severe infections.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elowyn&#8217;s mother, Molly, said she is grateful to Harry and the other trialists because &#8220;if they didn&#8217;t happen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351097518950931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}