Last July, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, to be an “extraordinary” situation that qualified as a global crisis.
Access to the new monoclonal antibody for prophylactic treatment will probably be tightly controlled, but parents may ask for it after an early RSV season last year.
Physicians are asked to consider measles as a differential diagnosis, particularly in people returning from travel overseas within the previous three weeks.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision makes GSK’s shot, called Arexvy, the first of several potential vaccines in the pipeline for RSV to be licensed anywhere.
Researchers combed through an HIV surveillance database and found 33 babies born in Canada between 2012 and 2021 were infected during pregnancy or delivery.
