Moderna pauses its RSV vaccine trial for children after 5 infants are hospitalized in latest challenge of preventing disease

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-16 22:32:25 | Updated at 2024-12-17 00:20:47 1 hour ago

Moderna pauses its RSV vaccine trial for children after 5 infants are hospitalized in latest challenge of preventing disease
MSN ^ | 12/16 | Beth Greenfield

Posted on 12/16/2024 2:26:58 PM PST by nickcarraway

A pediatric vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is proving to be elusive, according to news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

RSV is a highly contagious, common respiratory virus that infects the nose, throat, and lungs. And while it does not usually cause severe illness in healthy adults and children, some people with RSV infection, especially older adults and infants younger than 6 months of age, can become very sick and may need to be hospitalized.

But enrollment for all clinical studies of infant RSV vaccines is now on hold due to safety concerns, explained a Dec. 11 briefing document from the FDA that was released ahead of a meeting of the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) last week. The document notes that a phase 1 trial of two experimental Moderna RSV vaccines in infants aged five to eight months was paused in July. The pause came after five cases of severe to very severe lower RSV respiratory tract infections were reported among the 40 babies who received the vaccine dose, compared with just one case in the placebo group of 20. Five infants required hospitalization, with one needing mechanical ventilation.

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KEYWORDS: children; rsv; vaccine

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1 posted on 12/16/2024 2:26:58 PM PST by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

Nobody needs rsv vaccine. RFK Jr. We need you now.

To: nickcarraway

Where do they get the infants?
I can’t imagine any parent allowing their baby get experimental drugs

3 posted on 12/16/2024 2:32:21 PM PST by Veto! (Kamalala Sucks Rocks)

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