As RSV Season Approaches, the Federation of Medical Women of Canada Urges National Response to Protect Infants Across the Country
FMWC’s Maternal RSV Task Force releases new white paper highlighting gaps in access and calls for immediate action ahead of RSV season TORONTO — Today, the Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC) released its latest white paper through the Maternal RSV Task Force—a national group of experts in maternal, infant, and public health—highlighting the […]
RSV in newborns, hundreds hospitalized
Alberta doctors renew calls for RSV shot for all newborns, after hundreds hospitalized Province to offer newer preventative injection to high-risk infants this fall On the heels of a fall and winter that saw hundreds of Alberta babies and toddlers hospitalized and two young children die due to RSV, questions are being raised about whether […]
The race is on to protect infants from RSV this season
Ottawa mother Jessica Cohn still vividly remembers crumpling to the hospital floor when a team of doctors told her that her one-month-old may need to be intubated. Her healthy full-term newborn son Eitan had been diagnosed with RSV, a highly contagious virus that can be deadly for infants. While infants with some medical conditions are […]
RSV vaccine now available for Ottawa infants
For the first time, protective measures are being expanded to infants to ward off RSV this fall and winter. “This is a real game changer because looking at other countries that have put it in as a publicly funded program, we are seeing an 80 to 85 per cent reductions in hospitalizations,” said Dr. Paul […]
