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University of the Witwatersrand: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination of Pregnant Women Could Prevent Pneumonia in Babies
July 31, 2020
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 31 -- The University of the Witwatersrand issued the following news:

Immunising pregnant women with a potential vaccine against RSV could prevent the most common cause of pneumonia in their babies.

Professor Shabir A. Madhi of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is the lead author of a study published (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908380) in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, 30 Ju . . .

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