A new free vaccine program from the Federal Government is expected to protect pregnant women and babies from the potentially-deadly respiratory syncytial virus or RSV. Health Minister Mark Butler says it could reduce hospitalisations due to the disease by 90 per cent.
The Federal Government is announcing a nationwide vaccine rollout to help protect pregnant women and babies against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
"He was starting to have, like, breathing difficulties, so we took him to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, he became unresponsive, so we had to call an ambulance. The ambulance took him into hospital. He had one admission for four days, then after he got discharged, he was home for not quite a day and then started to deteriorate again.
"Every winter, around 12,000 Babies are hospitalized through RSV and as many as a quarter of them have to spend time in an intensive care unit. This winter has been a really hard one with more RSV cases recorded than last year." "We are just seeing a lot of respiratory illness in the community this year, high rates of whooping cough, lots of flu, still lots of COVID in the community, and probably a number of causes behind that, now that we're back out and about in the community, traveling more, and probably a bit less immunity to some of those common respiratory illnesses after the COVID years, but always a strong reminder to be vaccinated against what we can be.
Founding Director of the Immunisation Foundation Catherine Hughes welcomes the program as being world-leading.
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