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Pfizer’s Abrysvo Is First Maternal Vaccine For RSV To Protect Infants

 
• By Jessica Merrill

The vaccine, already approved for adults, was approved for pregnant women to protect infants from birth up to six months from complications caused by respiratory syncytial virus.

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A RSV vaccine was approved by FDA to protect infants • Source: Shutterstock

Pfizer Inc.’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Abrysvo was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to be administered to pregnant women to protect infants at birth, a first for vaccine development.

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