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U.S. health officials on Friday recommended RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be, a second new option to protect newborns from serious lung infections. The shots should be given late in pregnancy but ...
Pregnant people should get an RSV vaccine from Pfizer that transfers antibodies to their babies, according to a new CDC recommendation. It's the first RSV shot of its kind.
With a new RSV vaccine urged for pregnant women and as a possible "tripledemic" approaches, more are hesitant about getting Covid, flu and Tdap vaccines, the CDC finds.
The CDC recommends pregnant women receive some vaccines, such as the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine a month or more before pregnancy. The Tdap vaccine (to help protect against whooping cough) is recommended during pregnancy. Other vaccines, like the flu shot, can be given before or during pregnancy, depending on whether or not it is flu ...
Immunization during pregnancy is the administration of a vaccine to a pregnant individual. [1] This may be done either to protect the individual from disease or to induce an antibody response, such that the antibodies cross the placenta and provide passive immunity to the infant after birth.
A respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, or RSV vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus. [1] RSV affects an estimated 64 million people and causes 160,000 deaths worldwide each year. [2] The RSV vaccines Arexvy , [3] Abrysvo , [4] and Mresvia [5] are approved for medical use in the United States.
[3] [5] A baby can use some antibodies from the mother, transmitted in the womb. For this reason, it is recommended that people who are expecting to become pregnant get some vaccines, and those who are pregnant get others. [6] [3] [5] However, this maternal protection wears off after a few months.
Hansen, who got her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Aug. 2, tells Yahoo Life that "the choice to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during my pregnancy wasn't made lightly as I had to consider ...