Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the tools available to protect against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of this disease and the interventions available.

Find out:

- How many people, including young children, die from RSV each year

- What other vaccine-preventable viruses are in the same family as RSV

- Why symptoms can vary among different people

- How babies and elderly adults are protected differently against RSV and the tools available to protect them

- Two different options for protecting babies and considerations related to each

- About two different safety concerns during clinical trials and which one was found to be a true association with vaccination

- If a monoclonal antibody is a vaccine

To learn more about RSV and the tools to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-rsv.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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