Two new medicines may curb serious respiratory disease in infants

Published on July 30, 2020

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes severe disease in the lower airways and lungs of some 3 million newborn children and kills more than 100,000 worldwide each year. Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides some promising results. Science

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Progress Toward Hepatitis B Control - South-East Asia Region, 2016-2019

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This report describes progress of countries in the World Health Organization's South-East Asia region toward reaching 90% hepatitis B vaccination coverage.