{"id":4117,"date":"2023-12-28T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2023-12-29T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:38:06","slug":"new-antibody-treatment-for-rsv-in-infants-highly-effective-in-reducing-hospitalisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-antibody-treatment-for-rsv-in-infants-highly-effective-in-reducing-hospitalisations\/","title":{"rendered":"New antibody treatment for RSV in infants highly effective in reducing hospitalisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new antibody treatment could reduce by 80 per cent the numbers of babies and young children admitted to hospital with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, the study involved 8,058 healthy babies aged up to 12&nbsp;months from the UK, France and Germany, who were approaching their first RSV season. Half were randomly assigned to receive the antibody nirsevimab by injection, while 4,021&nbsp;babies received standard care.<\/p>\n<p>Of the babies who received the treatment, only 11 (0.3&nbsp;per cent) were hospitalised, in comparison with the 60&nbsp;babies (1.5&nbsp;per cent) who were hospitalised after receiving just the standard care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new antibody treatment could reduce by 80 per cent the numbers of babies and young children admitted to hospital with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, the study involved 8,058 healthy babies aged up to 12&nbsp;months from the UK, France and Germany, who were approaching their first RSV season. Half were randomly assigned to receive the antibody nirsevimab by injection, while 4,021&nbsp;babies received standard care.<\/p>\n<p>Of the babies who received the treatment, only 11 (0.3&nbsp;per cent) were hospitalised, in comparison with the 60&nbsp;babies (1.5&nbsp;per cent) who were hospitalised after receiving just the standard care.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-antibody-treatment-for-rsv-in-infants-highly-effective-in-reducing-hospitalisations\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New antibody treatment for RSV in infants highly effective in reducing hospitalisations<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,321,26,78,88,800,801,8,213,80,49],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antibodies","tag-babies","tag-children","tag-hospitalizations","tag-medical-treatments","tag-nirsevimab","tag-palivizumab","tag-research","tag-respiratory-diseases","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}