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Ontario expanding access to RSV vaccines for young children, pregnant women

Ontario expanding access to RSV vaccines

Published Jul 26, 2024 at 7:18pm

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Ontario expanding access to RSV vaccines for young children, pregnant women
Ontario is doubling the number of children eligible for a vaccine to help fight a virus that makes little children really sick.A health-care worker treats a patient in the emergency department at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Ontario is doubling the number of children eligible for vaccination against a virus that can make young kids very sick.

The province says infants and high-risk children up to two years old will have access to new immunization to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

Pregnant women will also be able to be inoculated with a different vaccine to provide protection to newborns.

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