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Pregnant women will have free access to a vaccine to protect their newborns from the leading cause of hospitalisation for babies. Free vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, will be rolled out from February 3 as part of a $174 million federal government program. The vaccine will be made available to women who are between 28 to 36-weeks pregnant, to protect them and their child from the virus.
“Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be rolling out the world’s most comprehensive protection program for our babies against RSV,” he told Today on Sunday. “That will cut the hospitalisation rate from about 12,000 a year by 10,000 - a huge relief to parents but also a relief to a pressured hospital system.” The free RSV vaccines will be able to be administered to pregnant women around the same time as other maternal immunisations such as for influenza or whooping cough.
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